Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates on death row who will ask to have their lives spared in 2025.

COVID-19 data on statewide cases, deaths and hospitalizations as well as case and death data by jursidiction and age/race/ethnicity is from the Maryland Department of Health. Population data used ...

it has never been easy for inmates on death row to get clemency. For example, in 2023, only one of them succeeded when Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) pardoned John Huffington on the grounds that ...