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The Capital, Annapolis' hometown newspaper reports, "O'Malley urges compromise on death penalty." It's by Liam Farrell. Gov. Martin O'Malley may have acquiesced to a death penalty compromise crafted by the state Senate, but questions still remain whether the new capital punishment restrictions are flawed.With the elimination of the death penalty now a virtual impossibility at least until after the 2010 elections, O'Malley urged the House Judiciary Committee yesterday to take the incremental steps of further limiting when capital punishment can be used in Maryland."Unfortunately, while the arc of history bends toward justice, it does not always arrive there in one, two, or even three or four years," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).