Measure would make more cases eligible for the death penalty 

Posted: 8:12 pm Wed, March 10, 2010
By Steve Lash

ANNAPOLIS — Capital-punishment opponents and supporters clashed Wednesday over legislation that would permit the death penalty to be handed down in Maryland for murder convictions based on fingerprint evidence or a still photograph conclusively linking the defendant to the heinous crime. The two sides, arguing before a Senate committee, disagreed on whether the controversial proposal ...