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"Death penalty may get special study," is Lauren Dorgan's report in today's Concord Monitor. New Hampshire's death penalty law should be studied by a special commission, a House committee recommended yesterday. The same committee voted against repealing the death penalty law by a vote of 11-7. New Hampshire hasn't put a prisoner to death since 1939, but in the past year the state saw two capital murder trials, one of which ended in a death sentence for Michael Addison, who shot and killed Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006. That case is currently in the appeals process. The commission bill, which was worked out between opponents and proponents of the death penalty, garnered a 15-1 vote in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).