Are You For or Against Capital Punishment in Maryland?
posted about 12 years ago
Are you for or against Capital Punishment in Maryland? Please justify your response.
A few facts about the death penalty in Maryland:
-Only first degree murder is a capital offense in the state of Maryland
-The lethal injection procedure consists of the anesthetic drug sodium pentothal, followed by the paralytic drug Pancuronium bromide, and lastly a drug which stops the heart, potassium chloride
-The earliest recorded execution was in 1773
-A total of 309 people have been executed
-Only five have been executed since 1976
-Five men are awaiting execution housed at the North Branch Correctional Institution
