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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Maryland Abolishes the Death Penalty: May 2, 2013
Maryland Abolishes the Death Penalty: May 2, 2013
The death penalty, which has always been a point of contention in American public life, has become increasingly controversial during the past decade as a growing number of states have attempted to outlaw the practice and the availability of the drugs required for lethal injection has dwindled. On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the latest state to formally outlaw the death penalty, when Governor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, signed a measure passed by the legislature two months earlier. The new law reignited the debate about whether the United States should join most other Western nations and outlaw the death penalty altogether, or whether the punishment was still an effective crime ...
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