Bill Thompson
WMAL.com
Outgoing Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley may be preparing to commute some death sentences.
The governor is trying to set up meetings with families whose relatives were murdered by the four men currently on death row in Maryland.
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“In light of the fact that the governor’s term is about to end, I can only surmise that he is looking to take some sort of action on the inmates who remain on death row,” Scott D. Shellenberger, the Baltimore County State’s Attorney, told the Washington Post.
Last year Maryland abolished capital punishment in future cases, but it's not clear what will happen to those four prisoners awaiting execution.
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler filed a brief that said that Maryland no longer possesses the legal authority to carry out executions or the ability to issue new regulations concerning lethal injections.
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