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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.
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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.
The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center (MTC), formerly known as the historic "Maryland Penitentiary", is a maximum pre-trial security Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services prison located in Baltimore facing Greenmount Avenue between Forrest Street and East Madison Street.
Amnesty International opposes capital punishment because it breaches human rights, in particular the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [279] Other groups oppose capital punishment on moral grounds.
The Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF), previously the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center (MCAC), is a maximum level II (supermax or control unit) prison operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Baltimore. [1]