Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Wednesday that he would erase the last vestiges of Maryland's death row by commuting the sentences of the state's remaining condemned murderers to life without parole.
Acting on the last day of the year and with three weeks remaining in his term, O'Malley said he will spare the lives of four men left in limbo after Maryland abolished the death penalty for future offenders in 2013.
The four are Vernon Evans, Anthony Grandison, Jody Lee Miles and Heath William Burch.
Evans and Grandison were convicted in a 1983 contract killing at a Baltimore County hotel. Burch was sentenced to die in 1996 for killing an elderly couple when he broke into their home in Prince George's County. Miles was found guilty of the 1997 murder of a man during a robbery in Salisbury.
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POS coward. Good riddance. The only negative thing about the death penalty, is it's not fast enough.
ReplyDeleteO douchbag i hope nobody in your family gets killed by a criminal you hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Owemallo could commute the death sentences of the aborted babies who are not convicted felons while he is at it?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a good thing. Instead of them taking a coward way out with little pain after having spent years separated from the general population, it'll be good to let them really start serving their time with real inmates until they rot.
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