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Interesting report on review of capital costs in New Hampshire

By Douglas A. Berman

This article from the Nashua Telegraph, which is headlined "Death penalty costs N.H. millions: Commission examines capital punishment," discussing an on-going capital study in the Granite State. Here are snippets: The taxpayer cost to prosecute, defend and sentence William "Stix" Addison for the October 2007 murder of a Manchester police officer has reached nearly $3 million and will grow by half a million dollars a year while he appeals the verdict.  Meanwhile, state prosecutors spent $2.4 million to convict John Brooks of Londonderry for ordering the 2005 murder of a Derry handyman.  The jury turned down the state's bid to apply the death penalty and instead Brooks is now serving serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Commission to Study the Death Penalty in New Hampshire spent Friday examining the costs to carry out capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 06, 2009 (boomark / email).