FOR BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT, A SEASONED DEFENSE TEAM
” One lawyer won acquittal for a Saudi man charged with carrying three firecracker-like devices on a plane, arguing he was a victim of hysteria over airport security after the Sept. 11 attacks. Another has managed to avert death sentences for some of the highest-profile criminals of our time, including the Unabomber and the gunman whose rampage injured former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
The team that will be led by Miriam Conrad, the chief federal public defender for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, got a major boost Monday with the addition of prominent San Diego lawyer and death penalty opponent Judy Clarke. Not that Conrad is considered any slouch.”
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Tag Archive: Capital punishment
Maryland Moves to End Executions
” Maryland’s Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the death penalty, moving the state closer to becoming the sixth since 2007 to abolish capital punishment.
The vote in Maryland came amid deepening uncertainty over the death penalty, which was reinstated in many states after it was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976.”
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- Maryland Senate votes to repeal death penalty (jurist.org)
- Maryland Senate Approves Measure to Repeal Capital Punishment (baltimorenewsjournal.com)
- Senate backs bill to abolish death penalty (times-news.com)
- Maryland moves close to abolishing death penalty (usnews.nbcnews.com)
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