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From New Hampshire

By Steve Hall

"Let's take a close look at the upcoming report on New Hampshire's death penalty," is the title of an editorial in today's Keene Sentinel. Debates over the death penalty are sometimes governed by simple personal opinion. Some people approve of it. Some people do not. The reasons may be moral, ethical, religious, practical or instinctive. ?I believe the death penalty is right in some cases,? said a Keene High School student last week, speaking at a hearing in Keene held by the New Hampshire Commission to Study the Death Penalty. Others had a different view. ?The best possible outcome for me would be for there to be no more death,? said a woman whose daughter was murdered in Henniker.Such contrasting feelings help explain why the Legislature has voted several times to abolish the death penalty in New Hampshire, and why former governor Jeanne Shaheen vetoed a repeal that passed, and why Governor John Lynch threatened to veto any others that did pass...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).