League of Women Voters of Maryland

References

LWVMD Position: 

Capital Punishment

LWV Study: 

Fact Sheet: Death Penalty

About the Bill

Link: 

http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0645f.pdf

Link: 

http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/billfile/SB0645.htm

Synopsis: 

Repealing the death penalty; repealing procedures and requirements related to the death penalty; providing that specified inmates who have been sentenced to death may not be executed and shall be considered as having received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole under specified circumstances; etc.

LWVMD's Position

LWV Position: 

Strongly support

LWV Testimony: 

LWVMD Testimony in Strong Support of SB 645 Criminal Law - Death Penalty - Repeal

Bills to repeal the Maryland Death Penalty were filed last week, following an Annapolis rally and lobbying effort by those seeking to end capital punishment.

DEATH PENALTY

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(The following is provided by Maryland Citizens Against State Executions (MD CASE), the coalition of which LWVMD has been a member since we achieved consensus on repeal, and the subsequent adopti