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First New Hampshire Death Sentence in 49 Years

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pAP reports, quot;a href=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyt5A4Vp_kRlJpe1xdB_GGJVGvewD95578M00Man gets first NH death sentence in 49 years/a.quot;/pdiv style=margin-left: 40px;A jury on Thursday issued New Hampshire#39;s first death sentence in nearly a half-century to a man who fatally shot a Manchester police officer two years ago./divp style=margin-left: 40px;Jurors unanimously agreed that Michael Addison, 28, deserved to die by injection for purposely shooting Officer Michael Briggs to avoid being arrested./pp style=margin-left: 40px;The last time a New Hampshire court imposed a death sentence was in 1959, but the two condemned men were spared by a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. New Hampshire last executed someone in 1939, has no one on death row and has no death chamber...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).