Different debates about death penalty in statehouses
The stories of legislative reform of the death penalty in different states remains amazingly dynamic as evidenced by these stories in today’s papers:
In Alaska, “lawmakers have begun hearings on a proposal to reinstate the death penalty, a practice abolished even before statehood was granted more than half a century ago.” But in Colorado, a “House committee Monday night, after hearing hours of emotional testimony, approved a bill that would ban the death penalty.”
Also, from Maryland comes this report that “Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) said yesterday that he would like to see a relatively quick, up-or-down committee vote on a bill to repeal Maryland’s death penalty.” Because debate over death penalty repeal in Maryland has been going on for years, I am sure this story will keep making headlines, too.