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Cost an Issue as New Hampshire Study Commission Begins Work

By Steve Hall

The New Hampshire Commission to Study the Death Penalty met Friday and cost was the prime topic of discussion.  The site has links to earlier study commissions conducted in other states. "Addison trial cost state nearly $3m," is the title of Kevin Landrigan's report for the Saturday edition of the Nashua Telegraph.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...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).