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Since then, Evans has filed motions for a new trial and to correct an illegal sentence. Those, however, have been denied as well. He was scheduled for execution in
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Concern that anti death penalty activists would protest Evans' execution violently, Maryland State Police carried out undercover surveillance of anti death penalty activists for fourteen months. The operation was ended when it came to light; Governor
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convicted for murdering two witnesses scheduled to testify against the leader of a drug gang. In 1984, he was convicted and sentenced to death together with
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The status of Evans' death sentence became unclear (along with that of four other convicted murderers, including
Grandison) when the
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While on death row, anti death penalty activists enabled Evans to write an advice blog designed, according to the
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Levine, Susan (19 June 2004). "A Shorter Line on Death Row; Pr. George's Man May Be Months From
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