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The High Cost of the Death Penalty in New Hampshire

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That's the title of an OpEd in Foster's Daily Democrat, by Dover resident Anthony McManus.  LINKEven though there has been a death penalty law on the books there hasn't been an execution in New Hampshire for more than 50 years. While in the abstract a majority of New Hampshire citizens may support the death penalty there has been little or no recent public outcry to implement the law, nor any sudden upswing in frequency of murders in the state that might trigger a harsher response. The decision, it seems, has been an administrative policy decision by the Attorney General's office.In a time when the State is desperately short of cash it's curious that the State would suddenly be instituting multiple charges of capital murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).