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The Nashua Telegraph carries a guest editorial -- it originally appeared in the Keene Sentinel -- "Death penalty still popular, in theory."Yet, despite the high-level affection for state-sanctioned killings, the people of New Hampshire have turned away from them over the decades. Perhaps to their disappointment, our living governors have had no opportunity of presiding over an execution. The last one, a hanging, took place in 1939. Today, the idea of the state strapping people down and killing them over in Concord strikes some people as not altogether civilized. How would we explain it to the kids? The eye-for-an-eye justification may make superficial sense, although the state is supposed to behave better than violent criminals. Think of the moral dimension, the fact that many killers are deranged to begin with and the frightful string of cases in other states where innocent people have been convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).