Death - Maryland: More Comments on Lt. Governor Michael Steele's Failure to Follow Through.
When Lt. Gov. Michael Steele took office in January as the first black person elected statewide in Maryland, he vowed to set up a task force to find a way to fix the capital punishment system.
As a Catholic opposed on moral grounds to the death penalty, he said he was troubled by evidence of racial bias in the system.
Nearly a year later, there's no formal commission, and Steele hasn't contacted the leading death-penalty lawyer in the state public defender's office because, he said, "I'm still trying to identify all the players," The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Anti-death penalty activists say they can't get their calls returned from his office. And frustrated black lawmakers are questioning his commitment to changing a system in which blacks who kill whites are disproportionately represented among those sentenced to die.
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