The Maryland House of Delegates approved a bill Thursday to restrict capital punishment to murderers who leave behind biological evidence, give a voluntary video confession, or are caught on videotape committing the murder.
The bill was hailed by proponents as a compromise between pro-death penalty and anti-death penalty lawmakers that would prevent the execution of the wrongly convicted.
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