Maryland abolishes death penalty.

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To answer your first question, I'd say the Paris Commune was a pretty good example, though as both Marx and Lenin later on noted, they weren't aggressive enough because they didn't finish off the counter-revolutionaries, who came back and crushed the Commune.

Yes, but...

They only existed for 3 months, yes? Let's say they survived, or thwarted the Versailles (and were left alone by other hostile forces). Are you sure they were a viable sustained model over time? We'll never know, but wouldn't they likely also suffer the same corruption as other similar movements? Perhaps it is the utopian motivation, in contrast to the foibles of the individual itself which dooms such endeavors in the long run. We are never as good as we imagine ourselves to be.