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Boone, NC Calls for Repeal |
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March 25, 2013
We are thrilled to announce that Boone has become the fourth local North Carolina Government to call for death penalty repeal. The decision was unanimous. Read more here. |
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MD: We Did It! Ohio Tonight |
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March 18, 2013
We did it!
Maryland has officially repealed the death penalty and we just need Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley to sign the repeal bill into law, which he has promised to do.
Gov. O’Malley has been at the forefront of this effort, championing the Maryland repeal bill that will soon become law and promising to allocate money for programs to help murder victims’ family members.
Please take a moment to thank Gov. O’Malley by clicking here.
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Maryland Repeals Death Penalty! |
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March 15, 2013
Congratulations! Moments ago, two blocks from the docks where Kunta Kinte of Alex Haley's Roots saga was sold into slavery in 1767, the Maryland House of Delegates, by a vote of 82 - 56, dismantled arguably one of the legacies of slavery and lynchings that has echoed through the centuries by abolishing the death penalty.
Maryland is now the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to have abolished capital punishment, the eighteenth in the United States. Almost all of the men on Maryland's death row in the modern era have been African-Americans whose victims were white. Nearly 100 percent of executions in the past decade have taken place in the former Confederacy from neighboring Virginia southward.
What a huge victory! Thank you!
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March 14, 2013
We're surging towards repeal in Maryland.
The MD House Judiciary Committee passed the death penalty repeal bill, SB 276, by a vote of 14 – 8 last Friday. Debate on the bill began yesterday in the full House and a final vote is expected tomorrow. From there, the bill will go to MD Gov. Martin O’Malley to be signed into law.
Please continue to thank Gov. O’Malley for his hard work and support.
If you live in Maryland, please also take the following actions:
1. Encourage your delegates to support repeal. Click here to write to them right now.
2. Send a message to your senator. Click here to write to him or her right now.
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Happening Now: Maryland Vote |
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March 15, 2013
The Maryland House of Delegates is about to hold their final vote on SB 276, the bill that will repeal the death penalty.
Listen live to history in the making from the Maryland General Assembly’s website by clicking here.
Immediately following the vote, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will be hosting a press conference alongside coalition members who worked hard to make repeal possible. You can watch a live stream of the press conference here.
As always, we encourage you to follow our live updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Onward to victory!
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Maryland Senate Passes Repeal |
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March 6, 2013
Maryland Senate Passes Repeal Bill!
Congratulations and thank you! This afternoon, before our eyes the Maryland Senate passed SB 276, the bill to repeal the death penalty. The Maryland Senate is the first legislative body in the American South to call for repeal of the death penalty.
The bill now goes to the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, where it has strong support, From there it goes to the floor of the Maryland House of Delegates next week where, with your help, it will pass.
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