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| MD Killer Trying To Eliminate Death Penalty Potential |
| By delmarvanow.com |
| Published: 01/25/2011 |
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ELKTON, Md. -- Attorneys for the Salisbury man charged in the murder of Sarah Foxwell have filed a request to eliminate the option of a death sentence. The motion is one of several death penalty-related requests filed by defense counsel for 31-year-old Thomas James Leggs Jr. The requests will be heard in Cecil County Circuit Court during a three-day hearing scheduled to begin Wednesday. Defense attorneys for Leggs argue the court should rule against the state's intent to seek the death penalty because execution methods authorized in Maryland "constitute cruel and unusual punishment and violates evolving standards of decency." "There is a plethora of evidence to demonstrate that Maryland's lethal injection method, and the correctional policies and procedures governing it, present grave risk of needlessly inflicting a painful, torturous, lingering death," wrote Katy C. O'Donnell, division chief of the aggravated homicide division of the public defender's office, and Kay Beehler, an assistant public defender. Read More. |
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