Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

New Hampshire

By standdown

"Senate panel votes down death penalty repeal," is John Distaso's report for the Manchester Union Leader.In a 3-2, party-line vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday recommended the full Senate kill a repeal of the New Hampshire's death penalty law and instead proposed studying the issue after the 2010 election.An amendment to the House-passed legislation, offered by committee Chairwoman Sen. Deborah Reynolds, D-Plymouth, would eliminate all language that would repeal the death penalty statute and instead set up a 17-member commission to study all aspects of the death penalty.Issues would include whether the death penalty should be expanded, possible alternatives to the death penalty "that would ensure public safety and address the interests of families of victims," and the costs of prosecuting and defending on appeal a capital murder case...continue to full post

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