Maryland
Maryland has executed 314 people since June 20, 1638. Maryland's current method of execution is lethal injection; the most recent execution was Wesley Eugene Baker, by lethal injection, on December 5, 2005. Maryland conducts executions at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore; it is near the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center where death row inmates were previously confined (and a death row inmate died in his cell in March 2007). All death row inmates were relocated to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland in June 2010.
Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
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John Booth-El | Double murder by stabbing an elderly couple during a robbery of their Baltimore home on May 20, 1983 | October 18, 1984 | Vacated in 1987; resentenced May 27, 1988; vacated 1989; resentenced August 17, 1990 |
Heath William Burch | Double murder of an elderly neighbor couple by stabbing and bludgeoning in their home on March 19, 1995 | Two sentences March 29, 1996 | One vacated in 1997, as they had been submitted on one verdict card |
Vernon Lee Evans, Jr.(hired by Anthony Grandison, Sr.) | Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 | Two separate sentences on May 15, 1984 | Both sentences vacated 1991; resentenced November 15, 1992 |
Anthony Grandison, Sr.(hired Vernon Lee Evans, Jr.) | Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 | June 6, 1984 | Vacated in July 1992; resentenced June 1994 |
Jody Lee Miles | Robbery and murder by shooting of a theater manager on April 2, 1997 | March 19, 1998 |
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