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New Hampshire: first death sentence since Dick Nixon was Ike?s vice president

By cdw

via the AP: A jury issued New Hampshire’s first death sentence in a half century Thursday to a man who fatally shot a Manchester police officer to avoid arrest two years ago.. . . Addison, 28, had no reaction as the Hillsborough County Superior Court jury announced its verdict after about 13 hours of deliberation over four days. The state Supreme Court will automatically review the conviction and sentence, and the defense said it will appeal. The judge must formally impose the sentence, but cannot change it. New Hampshire hasn’t executed anyone since 1939. The last time a New Hampshire court imposed the death penalty was in 1959, but the lives of the two convicted men were spared when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment for a time in the 1970s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).