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Commentary on New Hampshire Legislation

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The Concord Monitor has an editorial, "Don't expand capital punishment, abolish it." New Hampshire lawmakers have been asked to expand the death penalty to cover crimes like that of Michael Woodbury, the Maine man who killed three people in an Army Navy store in Conway last July. Was Woodbury's crime worse than the alleged crime of John "Jay" Brooks, the millionaire charged with hiring hit men to kidnap and kill someone he believed had stolen from him? Was it worse than the alleged crime of Michael Addison, charged with killing a Manchester police officer? Brooks and Addison face the death penalty. Woodbury, who pleaded guilty, did not. Because he did not commit one of the six offenses punishable by death under New Hampshire law, he is serving life without parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).