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Thursday, January 30, 2003

Maryland Attorney General's call for death penalty abolition
Bernard Hibbitts at 9:01 PM ET

[JURIST] Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. announced Thursday that he has called for the abolition of the death penalty in Maryland. Read the press release, his open letter [PDF] to Maryland's Governor and members of the Maryland General Assembly, and a text of remarks [PDF] prepared for his Thursday press conference.






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