Maryland no longer has the ability to carry out the death penalty even against someone who was sentenced before capital punishment was banned last year, the state attorney general and lawyers for a death-row inmate argued Monday.
Their arguments came under repeated questioning during a hearing before a three-judge panel in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
Attorney General Doug Gansler contends that inmate Jody Lee Miles should be re-sentenced to life without possibility of parole. He is urging judges on the state's intermediate appellate court to send the case back to circuit court for a new sentence.
Gansler outlined two main reasons. First, Maryland's highest court ruled in Vernon Evans Jr. vs. the State of Maryland in 2006 that a legislative panel needed to approve protocols for lethal injection before an execution could take place, a step that has yet to be taken. Second, when lawmakers banned capital punishment last year, Gansler said they also repealed the law that enabled the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to introduce injection protocols.
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These guys have a real bad case of Cranial Rectitis!
ReplyDeleteKilling the innocent unborn is OK while it is forbidden to execute the most heinous of criminals!
Shot while resisting arrest is a way to impose the death penalty without burdening the court system.
ReplyDeleteFunny how Gansler kept his hole shut before elections... F him.
ReplyDelete11:53 - That's what's happened in Ferguson and NY. Saved money on pretrial confinement, trial, incarceration, and there will be NO chance of recidivism!
ReplyDeleteThat's why Charles Manson is still alive and has brides the age of his grandchildren! Should have dunked him in the water board a bit longer.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell ever happened to the firing squad or the hang man or the electric chair? all this politically correct mamby pamby BS has got to stop ,kill the SOB and get it over with.
ReplyDeletepoor Sam Vincent - he is really spinning in his grave (Figuratively)
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ReplyDeleteShot while resisting arrest is a way to impose the death penalty without burdening the court system.
December 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM
yeah the hell with due process.
good way to get rid of bad cops too isn't it?