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Governor Parris N. Glendening halted executions in Maryland by executive order on May 9, 2002, while a state-ordered University of Maryland, College Park study of capital punishment was conducted. [4] The subsequent governor, Robert Ehrlich, ended the moratorium and resumed executions in 2004. [4]
This is a list of at least 310 people executed in Maryland, United States, between 1638 and 2005. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Capital punishment in Maryland was abolished in 2013.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
New Hampshire became the 21st state to abolish capital punishment on May 30, 2019, when its state senate overrode Governor Sununu's veto by a vote of 16–8. [ 75 ] Colorado became the 22nd state to abolish capital punishment when governor Jared Polis signed a repeal bill on March 23, 2020, and commuted all existing death sentences in the state ...
Prisoners sentenced to death by Maryland (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in Maryland" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Ivey campaigning for the passage of a 2012 bill to end capital punishment in Maryland. When Ivey first took office as state's attorney in 2002, he said he believed in using the death penalty . [ 80 ]
Pages in category "Capital punishment in the United States by state" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2001, Messitte sentenced Dustin John Higgs to die, making him the first person sentenced to death in federal court in Maryland. Higgs ordered the 1996 murders of three women on an isolated road in Beltsville, on federal land. [6] Higgs was executed in 2020, by which time capital punishment had been abolished in Maryland state law.