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Today's Portsmouth Herald editorial is, "N.H. needs death penalty study group." The bill to set up a commission to objectively study the death penalty appears to have support based on its easy passage in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.The commission would study whether the death penalty "rationally serves a legitimate intent such as deterrence; is consistent with evolving standards of decency; is arbitrary, unfair or discriminatory in any way; whether there is a significant difference in the crimes of those selected for death as opposed to those who receive life in prison; whether there is a significant difference in the cost of prosecution of a first degree murder charge when the penalty is life without parole as compared with a death penalty conviction and execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).