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Maryland's Shrinking Death Row
The number of death row inmates in Maryland dropped by half in less then three and a half years. The Washington Post reported on February 5 that Maryland's death row population fell into the single digits for the first time since the 1980's. No one expects a significant influx of death row prisoners, the paper said. “I think that’s light years away,” said Michael Stark, the Washington and Maryland regional director of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a U.S. Justice Fund grantee. “At this point, it is just as likely that we could get abolition.”
