Politics & Government
Should NH Keep the Death Penalty?
The NH House passed another bill to abolish the death penalty.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill this week to repeal the state's death penalty. The 226-110 vote came after an emotional debate, and it follows passage in the House of a similar bill earlier this year that, ultimately, was set aside in a split state Senate.
The bill, as amended, would hold that the penalty for capital murder "shall be life imprisonment without the possibility of parole."
Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton, has said the legislation was crafted so that it would not pertain to Michael K. Addison, the man convicted of killing Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, but some lawmakers have questioned that.So now a similar bill heads back to the Senate (READ the bill).
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Should New Hampshire keep the state death penalty law? Sound off in the comment section below.
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