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New Hampshire Expansion Legislation Advances

By Steve Hall

The AP report is, "Bill would widen death penalty to cover fatal home invasions," via the Boston Globe. The House voted yesterday to expand the state?s death penalty in response to a machete and knife attack that killed a New Hampshire woman and maimed her daughter during a home invasion. Without debate, lawmakers voted to make home invasions like the murder of Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon a capital crime and name the law after her. And: Steven Spader was convicted of Cates?s murder last year and sentenced to life without parole. Codefendant Christopher Gribble?s trial is underway. Gribble has admitted to taking part in the attacks but is trying to convince the jury that he was insane at the time. They could not have faced the death penalty in the 2009 attack because the crime does not fall into the six types of murders punishable by death under the state?s statute, one of the narrowest in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).