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>> The Maryland General Assembly wraps up its legislative session today, and Gov. Martin O’Malley got one of his big asks: a repeal of the death penalty. But as the Post reports, that doesn’t mean that the five inmates on death row will suddenly be off of it; O’Malley has been cagey in saying what he will do with them, but has hinted that he is against commuting their death sentences. Even if those sentences aren’t commuted, though, the five remaining death row inmates may not ever be executed—with the death penalty repealed, no authority on carrying executions will exist any longer.

>> Maryland legislators can be happy that they got through most pressing business during the legislative session, but there are still two issues left unresolved, reports Fox 5: medical marijuana and a measure that would reverse a 2012 court ruling that increased liability for owners of pit bulls. Legislators have until midnight to move on both bills, or leave them to languish until next year.

>> D.C. residents and drinking and smoking us towards fiscal strength, it seems. The Examiner writes that D.C. is set to take in $42 million this year from “sin taxes”—the taxes on booze and cigarettes. Relative to last year, taxes for both are currently up; officials explain that it could be linked to longer bar hours and a slight uptick in the cigarette excise tax.

Briefly Noted: D.C. falling short on welfare-to-work requirements … Virginia not happy with Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments position on gun control … Newborn found dead in pond in Sterling … No guns on U.S. Capitol grounds! … Body found in Potomac River near 14th Street Bridge.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2011, a shutdown of the federal government was averted and we took a first look at Toki Underground. In 2010, gingko berries arrived early, much to the chagrin of everyone’s noses.