Maryland Initiates Sniper Charges
The arrest warrants charge Muhammad and Malvo with six counts of murder each. Gansler said his office intends to seek a death sentence for Muhammad. Because of his age, Malvo is not eligible for capital punishment under Maryland or federal law.
This prima donna (Gansler) is going to screw this one up, big time. As far as I know, he has never asked for the death penalty in any case. None of the prisoners on death row in Maryland committed their crime in Montgomery County.
Add to this the fact that the State's Attorney for Baltimore County, who asks for the death penalty in every case where she can and who has, by far, the most prisoners on death row, has said that the Maryland death penalty law does not apply in this case, because in each instance only one person was killed.
This was confirmed last night by retired Maryland Circuit Court Judge Vincent Femia who said exactly the same thing.
Gansler is apparently going to try to string the four Oct. 3 killings together, even though they happened at different places and at different times.
Add to this the fact that there is a moratorium on the death penalty in Maryland, while a commission studies whether the death penalty is given fairly. Suppose they decide that it isn't and suppose the liberal Democrat government of Maryland abolishes the death penalty? Think that this can't happen? You don't know Maryland.
Right now, the alleged killers are in the hands of the feds. Hopefully, the feds will turn them over to the state that is most likely to give them both death - Virginia. Right now, it is their call.