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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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University of Maryland
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Panel releases final report on capital punishment
by BRIAN WITTE A Maryland commission on Friday formally recommended repealing capital punishment, issuing a report death penalty opponents hope will add momentum to legislative efforts to abolish executions. But a minority report signed by eight of the commission's 23 members argued that the law…
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Md. lawmakers approve death penalty bill
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by BRIAN WITTE Maryland lawmakers on Thursday approved limits to how the death penalty can be used, with supporters saying it will help protect innocent people from execution but opponents calling the restrictions a practical end to capital punishment in Maryland. The measure, which was…
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Md. death penalty commission holds 2nd hearing
Source: Associated Press
Original Source By BRIAN WITTE, The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The daughter of a murdered elderly couple told a commission studying Maryland's death penalty on Tuesday to fix flaws in capital punishment - not to repeal it - while critics argued that capital cases…
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Death penalty: A pragmatic case for repeal
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Momentum in the states is shifting toward the repeal of the death penalty. There are practical reasons for this: The death penalty is expensive, it does not work, and it is administered with a clear racial bias. Repealing it is a matter of justice, public…
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Md. Panel Hears Views On Death Penalty; Urban Institute Study Says Capital Cases Cost Much More
Source: The Washington Post
by John Wagner The cost associated with prosecuting a case in Maryland in which the death penalty is imposed is on average $1.9 million more than the cost of a similar case in which capital punishment is not sought, a researcher told a state commission…
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Md. prosecutor: Death penalty imposed sparingly
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by BRIAN WITTE Maryland rarely executes prisoners and reserves such punishment for the worst criminals, a prosecutor told a state commission Tuesday. But a commissioner once sentenced to death said his case proved that innocent people can end up on death row. Baltimore County State's…
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Spying uncovered: Documents show state police monitored peace and anti-death penalty groups
Source: Baltimore Sun
Original Source By Nick Madigan, Sun Reporter Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released…
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Report May Put Final Nail in Death Penalty
Source: The Baltimore Sun
by DAN RODRICKS In the report from the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, the people of this state and their elected representatives have all the evidence needed to abolish the death penalty, once and for all, in the next session of the General Assembly. But…
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