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New Hampshire House votes to repeal death penalty

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 193-174 Wednesday to pass a bill repealing the death penalty. The proposed legislation would amend New Hampshire's criminal code by extending the definition of first-degree murder to encompass capital murder. The bill would take effect January 1, 2010, but Governor John Lynch (D) has said that he intends to veto the legislation. The bill will now come before the New Hampshire Senate, where it is less likely to pass, as it has no Senate co-sponsors. Last week, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) signed a bill repealing the death penalty, making New Mexico the second state to abolish the death penalty since the US Supreme Court reinstated it nationally in 1976. New Jersey was the first state to pass such a law in 2007. Earlier this week, Amnesty International (AI) reported that global executions rose in 2008. Last year, the US performed the smallest number of executions since 1995 with one state, Texas, accounting for half of those executions.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).