US wrestles with execution question (BBC) {MD bill to ban all executions}

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By Iain Watson
BBC News, Washington

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Vicki Schieber has come to talk about her daughter, Shannon.
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She was raped and murdered at her hall of residence and the killer was caught only after he moved to a different state and committed another rape.
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She says was pressed by state prosecutors to call for the death penalty for her daughter's killer, but she refused.
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State Senator Lisa Gladden, a lawyer who has defended those accused of murder, has introduced a bill to ban executions and has called exonerated death row inmates to testify this week.

Maryland's new Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley has said he would be willing to sign any law which ended capital punishment.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6348609.stm

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1. DP

I believe in the DP for people like that, who murder, then either escape or murder again and again
they should not be allowed to live in this society.

A life is precious, but when other people murder someone they forfeit their rights as citizens we
should keep in this society.




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"Throughout history, compassionate minds have pondered this dark and disturbing question: What is society to do with those members who are a threat to society, those malcontents and misfits whose behavior undermines and destroys the foundations of civilization? Different ages have found different answers. Misfits have been burned, branded, and banished. Today on this planet Earth, the criminal is incarcerated in humane institutions, or he is executed. "