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New Hampshire Senate Committee Debate

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Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee considered HB 556, legislation that would repeal the state's death penalty."Senate Takes Up Death Penalty," is Dan Gorenstein's report for NHPR. The death penalty is on trial in Concord. A bill to abolish capital punishment passed the House last month. Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee took over two and a half hours of testimony. New Hampshire Public Radio?s Dan Gorenstein reports. By now, many arguments over the death penalty are pretty familiar. People who oppose capital punishment say innocent people could be killed, people of color and the indigent are more likely to be sentenced, and it?s not a good use of state money. On the other side, people say New Hampshire has one of the narrowest death penalty laws in the land and the rules are designed to make it very difficult to get a death verdict...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).