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| New Maryland Gov. to Lift Execution Ban |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/19/2002 |
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Following through on a campaign promise, Gov.-elect Robert Ehrlich said he will lift Maryland's moratorium on the death penalty immediately after taking office in January. Lifting the ban Gov. Parris Glendening declared in May could mean as many as seven inmates would be executed in Ehrlich's first year in office. Ehrlich, who made the announcement Friday, said the governor should review the case of each person on death row individually, rather than issuing a blanket moratorium. Death penalty opponents said they will try to persuade Ehrlich to wait to lift the moratorium until the legislative session ends in April. Maryland and Illinois have halted executions because of doubts about the fairness of the death penalty. Glendening said he was troubled by claims that black killers of white victims are disproportionately sentenced to death. Most Maryland murder victims are black, but all 13 men on the state's death row were sentenced to die for killing whites. Glendening commissioned a study of state murder prosecutions to look for evidence of racial bias. The results are due in late December. Six of 10 people shot to death in last month's Washington, D.C., area sniper attacks were killed in Maryland. But suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo are expected to be tried first in Virginia, site of three of the shooting deaths, because that state is considered more likely to impose the death penalty. |
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