Government procurement in the United States is the process by which the Federal Government of the United States acquires goods, services (notably construction), and interests in real property.
 In FY 2016 alone the US Federal Government spent $461B on contracts.
 Contracts for Government procurement usually involve appropriated funds spent on supplies, services, and interests in real property by and for the use of the Federal Government through purchase or lease, whether the supplies, services, or interests are already in existence or must be created, developed, demonstrated, and evaluated.
 "See" 48 C.F.R. § 2.101 ("Acquisition" defined, as to goods and services only).
 Federal Government contracting has the same legal elements as contracting between private parties: a lawful purpose, competent contracting parties, an offer, an acceptance that complies with the terms of the offer, mutuality of obligation, and consideration.
 However, Federal contracts are much more heavily regulated, subject to volumes of statutes dealing with Federal contracts and the Federal contracting process, mostly in Titles 10, 31, 40, and 41 of the United States Code.
Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796February 10, 1876) was a statesman and jurist from Maryland.
 He gained fame as a defense attorney, defending notables such as Sanford of the Dred Scott case, Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter at his court-martial, and Mary Surratt, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
 A former Whig, he was a strong supporter of the Union war effort.
 At first he opposed wartime efforts to abolish slavery until 1864, and supported 13th Amendment.
Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block (February 8, 1948 – May 10, 2002) was an American convicted murderer.
 She was the first woman executed in the state of Alabama since 1957, and 9th woman executed in the U.S. since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.
 Block was the last individual executed by electrocution who was not given a choice of lethal injection, which is (as of 2017) the primary protocol in all the states that also maintain execution by electrocution.
The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the US Federal Government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction and maintenance of all lighthouses and navigation aids in the United States, between 1852 and 1910.
 The new agency was created following complaints of the shipping industry of the previous administration of lighthouses under the Treasury's Lighthouse Establishment, which had had jurisdiction since 1791, and since 1820, been under the control of Stephen Pleasonton.
 The quasi-military board first met on April 28, 1851 and with its establishment, the administration of lighthouses and other aids to navigation would take their largest leap toward modernization since the inception of federal government control.
 In 1910, the Lighthouse Board was disestablished in favor of a more civilian Lighthouse Service, under the Department of Commerce; later the Lighthouse Service was merged into the United States Coast Guard in 1939.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
 Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the US federal government.
 She maintained her innocence until her death, and the case against her was and is controversial.
 Surratt was the mother of John H. Surratt, Jr., who was later tried but was not convicted of involvement in the assassination.
This is a list of people executed in New Jersey.
 No one has been executed by the state of New Jersey since 1963, although a statute reinstating capital punishment for murder had been in force from 1982 until 2007.
 New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007.
 The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690.
 The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963.
 Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century.
 The last execution for a crime other than murder (or conspiracy to murder) was of Andrew Clark in 1872 for rape.
 The last woman executed was Margaret Meierhoffer in 1881.
 Except for a dozen slaves executed by burning in the early 18th century, executions in New Jersey were by hanging until 1906 and electrocution since then, with the exception of an execution by hanging in 1909.
Anthony Chebatoris (1898 – July 8, 1938) is the only person who has been executed within the physical boundaries of Michigan since that state abolished the death penalty in 1846.
 His trial and execution were carried out by the US Federal Government, and thus was beyond the jurisdictional authority of the state to prevent.
NinjaVideo was a website created in February 2008 containing links to uploaded videos of TV shows, movies, and documentaries.
 Since June 30, 2010, the site has been unavailable, as a result of a multinational anti-piracy effort led by the US federal government.
 At the centre of the takedown, was the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiative as Operation In Our Sites, citing that they were, "targeting pirate websites run by people who have no respect for creativity and innovation".
 Federal search warrants were executed at servers in the United States and the Netherlands.
 At the time of its seizure, the site was visited more than 6 million times a month.
The Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework (EAAF) is created by the US Federal government Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to allow federal agencies to assess and report their enterprise architecture activity and maturity, and to advance the use of enterprise architecture in the federal government.
Federal modernism is an architectural style which emerged in 1949 after the US General Services Administration (GSA) was created in response to the organizational needs of the US federal government during its time of post-war expansion.
 "The most gigantic business on earth," was established to consolidate the government’s building management and general procurement functions.
 GSA responded to the building needs coming out of the Depression-era and wartime expansion after World War II.
 The decades of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s stand out as a period of extensive federal government growth, with the number of Federal employees, the Federal budget, and GSA's building-related budget increasing dramatically.
 Between 1960 and 1976, GSA undertook more than 700 building projects across the United States.
 These included office buildings, courthouses, post offices, museums, and border stations, located in cities and towns of all sizes.

Question: The first woman executed by the US federal government was defended by an attorney that was jurist from what state?
Answer: Maryland