Jane Henderson

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Jane Henderson


Jane Henderson is Executive Director of Maryland Citizens Against State Executions, a statewide organization that has grown in size and impact since she took the helm in 2004. She is a chief architect of Maryland death penalty repeal strategy, which won establishment of the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment in 2008 and dramatically narrowed Maryland’s death penalty law in 2009, with the passage the most restricted evidence requirements in capital prosecutions in the nation.

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When the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment urged repeal of the death penalty in 2008, it also made a second, much less publicized recommendation: increase the resources and services for the surviving families of homicide. The Commission clearly listened to … Continue reading