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The New Hampshire Home Invasion Legislation

By Steve Hall

Tom Fahey writes, "Panel eyes death penalty for home invasion killings," for the state's Union Leader newspaper.The teens accused of killing Kimberly Cates in her Mont Vernon home last fall were labeled barbarians and deviants yesterday by both sides of a debate on expanding the death penalty.But speakers appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee disagreed on how to treat culprits who kill while invading a home in the future.Sponsors of Senate Bill 472 said that with the permission of Cates' husband, they have called the measure the Kimberly L. Cates Law. She was hacked and stabbed to death in her bed in October, and her 11-year-old daughter was attacked and left for dead.SB 472 would add home invasion killings to the state's capital murder law, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty just as they do now when police officers or judges are murdered or when killings are committed during kidnappings, rapes or cases of murder for hire...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).