Four more death-row inmates are being spared execution. A year after Maryland eliminated the death penalty for all future cases, outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley has commuted those not covered by the 2013 legislation.
As Think Progress reports, O’Malley said in a statement that “state executions make every citizen a party to a legalized killing as punishment.”
If only states like Texas and Oklahoma would follow suit.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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