Streetcars in Washington, D.C. and Maryland and Ohio National Historical Park, which utilizes about 1000 feet of the Washington and Great Falls rail bed and cut. Streetcars in Washington, D.C. and Maryland Streetcars and interurbans operated in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., between 1890 and 1962. Lines in Maryland were established as separate legal entities, but eventually they were all owned or leased by DC Transit (see Streetcars in Washington, D.C.). Unlike the Virginia lines, the Washington and Maryland lines were scheduled as a single system. Most of the streetcars were built with grand plans in mind, but none succeeded financially. A combination of the
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.