Looks like this guy has stepped in deep doo-doo with his lame-brained moratorium.

This close to election-time, he's in a no-win situation. He will most likely not lift it, and give the Demwits a huge black-eye across the country--or lift it, and enrage the Dem's liberal base nation-wide.

Maryland's governor issues death penalty moratorium


Maryland Gov. Glendening said he will not lift the moratorium on the death penalty until the state legislature reviews a study.

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (CNN) -- Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening imposed a moratorium on executions Thursday until the state finishes a study on whether there is racial bias in the use of the death penalty.

Glendening, a Democrat, said he envisions the stay remaining in place "until the study is reviewed and acted upon by the legislature, which I expect to take about one year."

Glendening stopped the execution of Wesley Eugene Baker, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection some time next week, and said he would stay any other executions that come before him. Baker was convicted of a 1991 murder.

Nine of the 13 people on death row in Maryland are African-American, including Baker. During his tenure, Glendening allowed the state to go forward with two executions, but he commuted a third. The Baker case was the fourth such case to come before him.