ANNAPOLIS – Legislation to repeal Maryland’s death penalty scraped out of a state Senate committee Thursday night.

The measure — a legislative priority of Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley — would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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