Repeal Death Penalty (Post 2)

Gov. Martin O'Malley is pushing to end the death penalty in Maryland. Ending the death penalty is not looking in O'Malley's favor because out of 47-member Maryland Senate, a narrow majority opposed the death penalty.

The death penalty should only be kept and used in the event a criminal is found 100% guilty and there is no possible way there are any uncertaintes in the case. Maryland is not the only state to use the death penatly, nor is it the only state trying to do away with it.

O'Malley will testify on February 18, 2009 before 11 members of the Senate Judicial Committee. This will be the third attempt in two years to ban the death penalty in Maryland.

Can you really argue with O'Malley? Detectives and forensic scientists always make mistakes and overlook small clue which can set free a convict who is sentenced for death row. Who is to tell if Maryland or other states have wrongly prosecuted a criminal and incidentally sent them through death row.

If the Committe does decide to do away with the death penalty, is it fair for the five men who already died per death row. If so, why could they not have just been given life sentences in prison?

Repeal Death Penalty (Post 1)

Gov. Martin O'Malley is pushing to end the death penalty in Maryland. Ending the death penalty is not looking in his favor becuase out of 47-member Maryland Senate, a narrow majority opposed the death penalty.

O'Malley will testify on February 18, 2009 before 11 members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. This will be the same Judicial Proceedings Committee which didi not advance the bill to the Senate floor for the last 2 years.

Although the bill has been rejected for the last two years, two committee members said they are still weighing the issue. Other committe members said that in the most violent crimes, it is still a good option.

As far as citizens of Maryland, more than half of Marylanders support the death penalty.