Maryland's highest court is scheduled to hear a challenge to the state's death penalty law next week, just weeks before the state legislature is expected to weigh a ban on capital punishment.
The challenge was brought by attorneys for Jody Lee Miles, of Wicomico County, who was convicted of robbing and killing Salisbury theater manager Edward Atkinson in 1997.
Miles was sentenced to death in March 1998. He has brought a string of failed appeals since his sentencing, with the Maryland Court of Appeals upholding the sentence last year. In the latest appeal, slated for that court on Jan. 3, Miles' attorney is arguing that the state's death penalty law is illegal under the state constitution.
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Where will this appeal be heard. I would like to attend.
ReplyDeleteEd was a great guy.
ReplyDeleteFry the jerk!
when someones life has been snuffed away, the perp deserves the execution. It needs to be carried out post haste. More innocents are murdered than executed.(very small #)
ReplyDeleteThen there needs to be a hearing on what laws are "sanguinary".
ReplyDeleteKill him, then we can "Coffee Tawk" about it!
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