Freshmen Legislators Learn the Basics

ANNAPOLIS – Most classes touring the State House are full of jean-clad students, but one touring this week is dressed in suits

Women Taken to the Cleaners on Laundry, Hair Salon Prices

Women are often charged more than men for dry cleaning and hair cuts, according to a report released Thursday by a Maryland consumer watchdog group

Death Penalty Opponents Look to Next Inmate Likely to be Executed

BALTIMORE – Death penalty opponents are already looking beyond Monday night’s execution of convicted murderer Tyrone Delano Gilliam, drafting a plan to generate support to spare the life of Maryland’s next death row inmate likely to be executed, Kenneth Collins

Maryland, 33 Other States, Use Injections to Kill Prisoners

BALTIMORE – Maryland prison officials killed Tyrone Delano Gilliam Monday night by lethal injection, which officials say is the quickest and most pain-free method of execution

Gilliam’s Journey a Decade Long from Conviction to Execution

ANNAPOLIS – Tyrone Delano Gilliam’s execution by lethal injection Monday night was the culmination of a 10-year process that included more than a dozen requests for reviews by state and federal appellate courts and a petition to the governor

Some Say Death Penalty Is Biased Against Blacks

ANNAPOLIS – Death row inmate Tyrone Delano Gilliam, who faces execution as early as Monday, has one thing in common with nine of the other 14 prisoners sentenced to death in Maryland – he is a black man who killed a white person

Death Row Inmate Denounces Justice System, Says Didn’t Pull Trigger

BALTIMORE – Facing execution next week, convicted murderer Tyrone Delano Gilliam said he does not believe he pulled the trigger in the December 1988 murder of a Baltimore County hardware clerk and added he is “frustrated” with a justice system that is “inundated with evil

Lawyer for Death Row Inmate Asks Governor to Commute Sentence

ROCKVILLE – The lawyer for death row inmate Tyrone Delano Gilliam petitioned Maryland’s governor Friday to commute Gilliam’s sentence for the December 1988 murder of a female store clerk

Attorney Gen. Curran Campaigns Hard Despite Large Lead in Polls

BALTIMORE – Attorney General J