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| MD Inmate Executed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/06/2005 |
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A condemned inmate was executed Monday for the fatal shooting of a woman, which was witnessed by her grandchildren at a Baltimore County shopping center in 1991. Wesley E. Baker, 47, died by injection despite arguments from death penalty opponents who said the state had yet to fully review a 2003 study of capital punishment in Maryland. The report concluded race and geography play roles in how death sentences are meted out in the state. Baker, a black man convicted of killing a white victim in Baltimore County, fit many of the purported disparities revealed by the study. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich chose not to commute the sentence, saying late Monday he would not intervene after what he called an "exhaustive and objective review" of Baker's case. |
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