Maryland: Death Penalty

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:16

This Week's Maryland 'Winners and Losers'

[img_assist|nid=2369|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://www.politickermd.com/winners_losers/may-23-2008|align=left|width=420|height=107]The Teflon Two? O'Malley and Brown make it through another rough story with barely a scratch on them, giving their staff another dry-run in crisis management. Plus, John Leopold gets stuck holding a $100,000 bill in the days of belt-tightening budgets.

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Thu, 05/22/2008 - 16:25

O’Malley issues statement on the death penalty

[img_assist|nid=2356|title=Gov. Martin O'Malley|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=right|width=155|height=225]Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) said in a statement today that he has "directed the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services to begin the rule-making process governing the administration of capital punishment in the state of Maryland."

Coming one-month after the U.S.

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Wed, 04/23/2008 - 07:13

Killing his oath softly

Allow me to join the round of boos…I mean, editorial boards in calling out Governor Martin O’Malley (D) for not doing anything about the death penalty. First in The Washington Times, whose editorial board states, “Unlike his Virginia counterpart [Gov. Tim Kaine (D)] who has decided to uphold the law, Mr. O’Malley has chosen to snooker it. We understand that an untold number of Americans and politicians wrestle with the morality of the death penalty. But Mr. O'Malley must understand, too, that the law is the law, and he has sworn to uphold the U.S.