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New Hampshire Debates a Death Penalty Expansion Bill

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The Manchester Union Leader has, "Strong feelings on bill to expand death penalty."New Hampshire's death penalty would be expanded to apply to multiple murders and attempted multiple killings under a bill aired yesterday in a state Senate hearing. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte supported the bill, saying it would fill "a glaring omission in our death penalty law." The family of James Walker, one of three men Michael Woodbury shot to death during a botched robbery at a store in Conway last July, appeared in support of the bill. The Catholic Diocese of Manchester and the New Hampshire Council of Churches oppose the bill, SB 344. In addition to multiple murders, the bill would allow execution in cases where only one person was killed, if a jury found that a defendant then attempted to kill a second person during the same incident...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).