Maryland abolishes death penalty.

[LennyLen]

Humans cannot ever be freed from need or want (well, need for sure at least), and Marxism does not deny this and in fact even agrees with it - need is one of the central themes that is of concern in Marxian economics since this (human need, survival) is the starting point for all economic activity.

The problem of course, is that all too often, the simplest way to satisfy that need is to take what you want from other people. And if history has shown us anything, it is that human nature is very amenable to this.