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This is a list of at least 310 people executed in Maryland, United States, between 1638 and 2005. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Capital punishment in Maryland was abolished in 2013.
The death penalty had been in use in the state or, more precisely, its predecessor colony since June 20, 1638, when two men were hanged for piracy in St. Mary's County. A total of 309 people were executed by a variety of methods from 1638 to June 9, 1961, the last execution before Furman v. Georgia. Since that time, five people have been executed.
The state of Maryland also abolished the death penalty in 2013, [32] with all remaining death row inmates resentenced to life without parole. [33] Prior to the abolition, the last execution in Maryland occurred in 2005, [ 34 ] when Wesley Baker was executed for the June 1991 murder of 49-year-old Jane Tyson.
Wesley Eugene Baker (March 26, 1958 – December 5, 2005) was an American convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of Maryland. He was convicted for the June 6, 1991, murder of Jane Frances Tyson, a mother and grandmother, in front of two of her grandchildren in Catonsville. He was the last person to be executed in Maryland. [1]
Sixty people were executed in the United States in 2005. Nineteen of them were in the state of Texas.One (Frances Elaine Newton) was female.[1] [2] The states of Connecticut and Maryland carried out their last executions in 2005, with both states having since abolished capital punishment.
Country Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria August 1993 [1]: seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola 1977 [2]: Nito Alves and many of his supporters
The Death Penalty Information Center lists 20 cases in which someone was put to death despite ... “In Maryland in 2001, Governor Paris Glendening issued a pardon to John Snowden, a Black man who ...
Crime Convict Race Age Date Location Jurisdiction Robbery [1]: James Coburn [2] [3]: White 38 4 September 1964 Alabama: State Rape: Ronald Wolfe [4]: White 33 8 May 1964 Missouri