Death penalty

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks Friday after the Maryland General Assembly approved a measure to ban capital punishment.

Death and life in Maryland

Death penalty | The Maryland legislature recently voted to abolish capital punishment in the state, making Maryland the sixth state in the last six years to eliminate the death penalty. The primary argument for repealing the law is…

San Quentin State Prison

California voters support death penalty

Politics |  MARIN COUNTY, Calif.—Yesterday, outside San Quentin State Prison, Andre Williams weighed in on California Proposition 34. The measure, rejected by voters,

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Tookie's victims

Death penalty |  Lost in the hype about Stanley Williams' death sentence were the lives he took in 1979

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