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New Hampshire Home Invasion Bill to Get Wednesday Vote

By Steve Hall

"NH Senate To Vote On Death Penalty Bill," is the AP report via WBZ-TV.New Hampshire's Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on capital murder legislation named after a Mont Vernon woman killed with a machete in her bed during a burglary. A Senate committee is recommending more study of the bill. The bill is named after 42-year-old Kimberly Cates, who was killed in a burglary Oct. 4. Her 11-year-old daughter was also attacked but survived. The bill would make home invasion killings a death penalty offense. Under the bill, prosecutors would have to prove home invaders entered with the specific intent to kill the occupants of the house for the crime to be punishable by the death penalty.Today's Union Leader carries the editorial, "The Kim Cates Law: Death for home-invasion killers...continue to full post

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