Senate reaches compromise on death penalty 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, March 4, 2009
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ANNAPOLIS — A legislative effort to repeal Maryland’s death penalty appears all but over for this year, as the Senate on Wednesday approved a compromise measure that preserves capital punishment but would impose strict evidentiary requirements before it could be handed down. Under the amended bill, SB 279, the death penalty could be imposed only if ...