SUVs, buggies share county populated by farms, big-box stores
Just off the bustling highway that cuts through the rolling farmland and small villages of Lancaster County stretches a road that in many ways depicts the disparate faces of this...
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High court OKs challenge to lethal injection
The Supreme Court on Monday broadened the legal path for Death Row inmates to challenge lethal injection as an inhumane method of execution. Settling a technical--but potentially crucial--procedural matter, the...
Police promise integrity
Responding to allegations of corruption in a district station house, Baltimore's police commissioner said yesterday that he is committed to restoring the "internal integrity" of the department and has begun...
Witness describes final moments of Baker’s life
Editor's note: Jennifer McMenamin was one of five media witnesses to Baker's execution Monday night. His arms were extended from his sides. His hands were balled in loose fists. His...
Baker executed for 1991 killing
Thirteen years after he was convicted of shooting a woman to death at a Baltimore County mall while two of her grandchildren looked on, Wesley Eugene Baker was executed last...
State has long history of capital punishment
Maryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years - first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in...
England statement can be used in trial
FORT HOOD, Texas // A military judge ruled yesterday that prosecutors can use one of two statements Pfc. Lynndie R. England gave to Army investigators when they first questioned her...
Inmate heavily bound at hearing
Kevin G. Johns Jr., the prisoner charged with strangling a fellow inmate on a prison bus in February, was brought to court yesterday with his ankles shackled, his wrists handcuffed...
Prisoner dies after altercation with guards
A 51-year-old Randallstown man jailed at Central Booking and Intake Center in Baltimore on charges of theft and failure to appear in court died yesterday after an altercation with guards...
Suburbs see some cases of threats against witnesses
The voice mail message arrived at 1:30 p.m. on April 28. "I'm gonna tell you one thing: Baltimore too small," he said. "I know where you be and everything you...