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New Hampshire: Life over death

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Good news from a case we’ve been watching, this time out of northern New England Convicted murderer John ‘Jay’ Brooks has been sentenced to life in prison on two counts of capital murder, sparing him the death penalty. A Rockingham County Superior Court jury found enough aggravating factors to sentence convicted murderer John ‘Jay’ Brooks to death but at least one of them decided he should not receive lethal injection. Because of that decision, Brooks will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility or parole. The 12-person jury deliberated for just over eight hours. They found most of the state’s aggravating factors to be valid ‘ including the facts that Brooks had destroyed evidence, used a deadly weapon and engaged in a conspiracy with others to murder Jack Reid Sr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).