Under the new law, capital punishment can be imposed only in cases with a videotaped confession, or in which biological, DNA or videotaped evidence conclusively links a defendant to a murder.
Cases relying solely on eyewitness testimony would be ineligible.
The new standards are the result of a three-year effort by Gov. Martin O'Malley to get a divided legislature to repeal capital punishment. The governor labeled this outcome a start in changing a flawed...
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