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New Hampshire Senate Rejects Death Penalty Expansion

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The Nashua Telegraph has, "Senate rejects death penalty legislation."The state Senate shot down a likely Republican candidate for governor's bid to expand the death penalty. Sen. Joseph Kenney, R- Wakefield, wanted to impose the death penalty on those guilty of killing more than one person at a time. Kenney said the slaying of three innocent bystanders at an Army Surplus store in North Conway moved him to pursue the change. "They deserve a vote on this matter, and they deserve justice for their loved ones,'' Kenney said. "You can come to New Hampshire, kill one person in a kidnapping and you could face death, but you come here and kill 30 people, you could not. How is that justice?'' Attorney General Kelly Ayotte supported the change but offered an amendment because the language had flaws...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).