The Washington Post on Maryland’s Death Penalty Moratorium
from the disproportionate-application dept.
There’s an editorial in today’s Washington Post that makes some good points in favor of going beyond Maryland’s newly announced temporary moratorium on executions, and just going right to abolishing the death penalty altogether. An interesting statistic it mentions is that although 80% of murder victims in Maryland are non-white, 9 of the 13 people currently on death row in the state are black, and all but one of them was convicted of killing a white person. Advocates of state-sponsored killing are encouraged to offer their defense of such practices via the site’s comment system.
