Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center that produced the films. The EDCJCC also houses the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Library, which includes a Jewish Heritage Video Collection, a children's reading collection, and a collection of genealogy books and materials. It is a constituent organization of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, serving Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Although the first recorded Jew settled in Washington, DC, in 1795, the first large immigration of Jews to the nation's capital took place with the arrival of a number of German Jews, in the 1840s. In 1852, twenty-one Washingtonian Jews established the Washington Hebrew Congregation, and
Capital punishment in Maryland meal; instead the prisoner received whatever food the general prison population is served the day of the convict's death. Since the United States Supreme Court's "Gregg v. Georgia" decision in 1976, a total of five individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Maryland. All were executed by lethal injection. Capital punishment in Maryland Capital punishment was abolished on May 2, 2013 in the U.S. state of Maryland. The death penalty has been in use in the state or, more precisely, its predecessor colony since June 20, 1638, when two men were hanged for piracy in St.