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News Coverage of the New Hampshire Death Sentence

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"Killer receives death sentence," is the Boston Globe report.A New Hampshire jury handed down the state's first death sentence in 49 years, finding yesterday that a former Boston gang member with a history of violence should be executed for fatally shooting a police officer two years ago. The verdict means that Michael Addison, 28, who was convicted of killing Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs, could be the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939. Two men were sentenced to death in the state in 1959, but their lives were spared when the US Supreme Court struck down state death penalty laws in 1972."In New Hampshire, a Rare Death Sentence," if from the New York Times Lede Blog.No one has been executed in New Hampshire since 1939, when Howard Long was hanged for molesting and fatally beating a 10-year-old boy...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).