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New Hampshire Likely Next to Create Death Penalty Study Commission

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"Lynch expected to sign bill to study N.H.'s death penalty," is the title of Michael McCord's report in today's Portsmouth Herald.Gov. John Lynch is expected to sign legislation establishing a Death Penalty Task Force Study Commission to review New Hampshire's capital punishment laws.The bill passed the House Wednesday 220-92 and creates a 22-member commission that will begin work this summer and report findings and recommendations by Dec. 1, 2010. Rep. Jim Splaine, D-Portsmouth, the bill's sponsor, said the commission is necessary to take an in-depth look at the state's death penalty statutes ? which came into focus in December 2008 when a New Hampshire court handed down the state's first death sentence in 50 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).