Maryland Governor Reprieves Last Four Prisoners on Death Row
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Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley canceled the death sentences of the last four inmates awaiting execution, almost two years after the state became the 18th to do away with capital punishment.
O’Malley, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who will leave office next month, said today he commuted the sentences to life without parole. The decision came after Attorney General Douglas Gansler said that the state no longer had the authority to conduct executions after eliminating the death penalty.