The Maryland General Assembly will consider a bill to allow the most evil, violent, vicious members of society to kill innocent people without fear of punishment. This bill will make it legal for someone on trial for murder to kill the witnesses against them without punishment. This bill will allow a gang who viciously rapes and tortures a woman to then kill her without fear of further punishment. This bill will reward the prisoner serving a life sentence — who kills a guard or other prisoner — with repeated trips out of the prison to see his family and friends during court hearings.

What legislation would bring about such absurd results? The bill to repeal the death penalty in Maryland.