The Maryland House of Delegates voted today to overturn the state’s death penalty, clearing the way for Gov. Martin O’Malley to sign the repeal into law.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s goal of overturning the state’s death penalty achieved a difficult stride today when the state senate voted in favor of a repeal.

A Maryland Senate panel approved a measure that would repeal the death penalty in the state.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley spent yesterday being grilled by his state’s legislators when he testified in support of his push to repeal Maryland’s death penalty.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is delivering a speech today in which he will outline his plan to make repealing the state’s death penalty one of his top legislative priorities of the year.

The president of the NAACP will meet with Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley today, pushing him to repeal the death penalty in the Old Line State.

Bottoms up, D.C. drinkers. It was on this day in 1934 that alcohol again became legal in the District, some 16 years after Congress had decided that alcohol prohibition would be a good idea.

This afternoon the D.C. Council overwhelmingly voted to repeal the District’s first-in-the-nation Internet gambling program.

It seems that Internet gambling in the District is going back to the drawing board.

Yay! It’s Repeal Day, the day on which we celebrate the 1933 constitutional amendment to abandon the wrong-headed policy of prohibition. Everywhere but in the District, that is.