Although it is short of what Gov. Martin O'Malley hoped for, Senators advanced a plan to limit the state's capital punishment statute.
If they become law, the new requirements would mean that the death penalty could be applied only in murder cases in which there is DNA evidence, a video recording of the defendant committing the crime, or a voluntary, videotaped confession.
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