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O'Malley vows to work to end death penalty
Gov. Martin O'Malley said yesterday that he will do "everything in my power" to abolish the death penalty in Maryland this year and for the first time raised the possibility of allowing voters to decide the divisive issue through a constitutional...Tags: Lobbying, Frederick County (Maryland), Christianity, Punishment, Executive Branch
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Surveillance was 'misguided'
Maryland State Police "over-reached" and disregarded civil rights when they spied on anti-death penalty and peace activists in 2005 and 2006, according to a report commissioned by Gov. Martin O'Malley and released yesterday.
Undercover troopers and their...Tags: Activism, Punishment, Executive Branch, Terrorism, Death
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Timeline: The death penalty in Maryland
Baltimore Sun reporter1972: The U.S. Supreme Court invalidates death penalty statutes across the country 1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is legal. 1978: The General Assembly reinstates death penalty laws in Maryland. 1987: The General Assembly adds...Tags: Punishment, Executive Branch, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Maryland, College Park, Death
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Court delays hearing on prisoner's death-penalty appeal
Sun StaffMaryland's highest court has postponed until September a hearing on the appeal of one of two death-row inmates who had been expected to argue Tuesday that they should be given a chance to use a two-year-old University of Maryland death-penalty study in...Tags: Punishment, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Death, Murder
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Death penalty stirs debate
Associated PressSeveral of Maryland's inmates sentenced to death are late in the legal process of trying to stave off execution and one could face a death warrant soon, although defense attorneys say significant issues still need resolution before another inmate is put...Tags: Punishment, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Death, Trials
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State has long history of capital punishment
Sun reporterMaryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years - first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in the state took place Oct. 22, 1773, when four "convict servants" were...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Punishment, Theft, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Death
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Baker chronology
Sun staff1991 June 6: A gunman shoots Jane Frances Tyson, 49, as she sits in her car with her two grandchildren in the parking lot of Catonsville's Westview Mall. He grabs her purse, which contains $10. Oct. 24: A jury convicts the accused getaway driver,...Tags: Punishment, Executive Branch, Harford County, University of Maryland, College Park, Death
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Ehrlich says decision on execution was difficult
Sun reporterGov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that the decision to allow this week the second execution of his term came after extensive review of the case and consideration of the views of death penalty opponents, including Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele and...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Democratic Party, Christianity, Punishment, Executive Branch
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Witness describes final moments of Baker's life
sun reporterEditor's note: Jennifer McMenamin was one of five media witnesses to Baker's execution Monday night. His arms were extended from his sides. His hands were balled in loose fists. His eyes were closed. In the moments before the chemicals that would kill...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Witnesses, Christianity, Punishment, Hospitals and Clinics
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Baker executed for 1991 killing
Sun reportersThirteen years after he was convicted of shooting a woman to death at a Baltimore County mall while two of her grandchildren looked on, Wesley Eugene Baker was executed last night by lethal injection. Baker, 47, was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m., making...Tags: Christianity, Punishment, Theft, Executive Branch, Harford County
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Protest ends with sorrow, disappointment
Sun reportersWesley Eugene Baker's mother slipped into the crowd of death-penalty protesters gathered outside the prison gates as a steady snow fell. But few of them seemed to know who Delores Williams was, even as they followed her up the street to stand at the...Tags: Punishment, American Civil Liberties Union, Maryland, Demonstration, Death
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Death penalty debate focuses on redemption
sun reporterHis case had become a cause celebre. To his supporters, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the gang founder who spent his years on death row warning people away from the violent culture he helped to create, was living proof that a condemned killer could be...Tags: John Paul II, Wildlife, George W. Bush, Punishment, Executive Branch
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