RSS Feeds  Court upholds constitutionality of death penalty
Monday - 11/25/2013, 10:20pm  ET  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) --
Maryland's highest court has rejected a claim by a man on death
row that his sentence is unconstitutional.  The Court of Appeals
ruled on Monday against Jody Lee Miles' claim that the Maryland
Constitution limits capital punishment to treason against the
state government. The Daily Record reports ( that the court
ruled 6-1.  Miles was sentenced to death for the 1997 robbery
and murder of theater manager Edward Atkinson of Salisbury. He
is one of five men on death row in Maryland.  Maryland lawmakers
abolished the death penalty this year, but the five men had been
sentenced before the law was abolished.  Monday's ruling only
affects the five condemned men.   Information from: The Daily
Record of Baltimore,