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Editorials From New Hampshire

By Steve Hall

"Abolish the death penalty," is the editorial in today's Concord Monitor. Last week, after a year of testimony, public hearings and careful study, the state's 22-member Commission to Study the Death Penalty issued its report. By a 12-10 vote, the commission recommended neither to abolish the death penalty nor to act on pleas to expand it, but to leave things just as they are. After 19 meetings and many hours of testimony, few if any of the commissioners appear to have changed their minds about capital punishment. Perhaps that's not surprising, given the emotional nature of the death penalty and the legal and moral complexities involved. So despite all the commission's work, not much was learned. In fact, recent evidence in one Texas murder case sheds more light about the wisdom of the death penalty than the commission's report...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).