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    Senate defeats death penalty repeal, tables suspension

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The New Hampshire Senate has defeated a measure to repeal the death penalty and tabled another that would have suspended its use until methods exist to ensure an innocent person isn’t executed.

    Thursday’s vote mirrored a 2014 repeal effort that deadlocked in the 24-member Senate.

    New Hampshire is the only state in New England with the death penalty still on the books. The state’s last execution took place in 1939.

    Death penalty opponents said after the vote that they’re heartened that several senators who have been staunch supporters of the death penalty now support its repeal or suspension.

    Michael Addison, who was convicted of killing a Manchester police officer in 2006, is the state’s only person on death row. The bill would not affect anyone sentenced to death prior to suspension.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...spension-bill/
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    Cushing to oppose legislation that would expand eligibility for death penalty

    State Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton says he will oppose a bill filed this session that intends to make anyone eligible for the death penalty if they murder a minor.

    Fosters reports that Cushing, who is opposed to the death penalty as well as an advocate for murder victims filed legislation to repeal capital punishment this session, something he has tried to do in the past. However, he with withdrew this legislation when Rep. Werner Horn, R-Franklin filed the expansion bill, saying it was more important to defeat this bill.

    Under New Hampshire state law, seven instances are listed in which murder is deemed a capital offense.

    Cushing believes it is inhumane to punish murderers with the same act they committed.

    http://www.nh1.com/news/cushing-to-o...death-penalty/
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    New Hampshire really needs to shrink the size of their House of Representatives. If the US House of Representatives had the same proportion of constituents to congressmen, there would be 99,000 members of congress.

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    Senate bill would abolish death penalty in New Hampshire

    CONCORD, N.H. — A new effort to repeal New Hampshire's death penalty has bipartisan support.

    If passed, the bill would change the penalty for capital murder to life in prison without the possibility for parole.

    It would not change the fate for Michael Addison, the state’s only death row inmate. Addison was convicted of murdering Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006.

    Addison has been the only person sentenced to death in the Granite State since the 1930s.

    Historically, bills to ban the death penalty it have failed in the state Senate, failing by just one vote in both 2014 and 2016.

    However, the legislation introduced earlier this month appears to have enough support, with 13 senators sponsoring the bill.

    “People have come to realize that the death penalty is just a failed public policy. It doesn't work for law enforcement. It doesn't work for victims. It's expensive. Mistakes are made,” said Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton.

    Cushing has dealt with his own personal losses; his father and brother-in-law were murdered.

    “Filling another coffin doesn't bring anybody back. It just kind of increases the cycles of pain and violence,” he said.

    State Sen. Lou D'Allesando, D-Manchester, has supported capital punishment since the 1970s.

    “It's a very narrow death penalty. It isn't used very often. But it's served as a deterrent for years,” he said. “You don't bring dead people back who were killed by someone. That's another situation. Think of the family of Officer Briggs and the lasting effect it has on their family.”

    The bill will go to a committee hearing before the Senate votes at a later date. It would also have to pass in the state House of Representatives.

    http://www.wmur.com/article/senate-b...shire/18745894
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    Gov. Sununu Says He Would Veto Death Penalty Repeal Bill

    New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu says he is strongly against any effort to repeal the state's death penalty while a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing a measure that would repeal capital punishment

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    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu says he is strongly against any effort to repeal the state's death penalty while a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing a measure that would repeal capital punishment.

    The bill has 13 co-sponsors in the Senate, and if passed it would change the penalty for capital murder to life in prison without the possibility for parole. Sununu released a statement Wednesday saying his administration supports the death penalty and he will veto the bill if it reaches his desk.

    The bill would not change the fate of Michael Addison, who was convicted of murdering Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006 and sentenced to death. Addison is New Hampshire's only death row inmate.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...ty-repeal-bill
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    Lawmakers pass death penalty repeal bill, face Sununu veto

    A bill to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire is on its way to Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who reaffirmed Thursday that he would veto it.

    The bill would change the penalty for capital murder to life in prison without parole. The House passed the measure 223-116 on Thursday. The Senate had passed it earlier.

    "I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death penalty," Sununu said in a statement. "A top priority of my administration has been to strengthen laws for crime victims and their families."

    A two-thirds majority in both chambers is needed to override vetoes.

    "We are very close," to getting the votes needed to override a veto by the governor, said Rep. Renny Cushing, a Democrat from Hampton whose father and brother-in-law were murdered in separate incidents. Cushing is opposed to the death penalty and has lobbied for years to repeal it.

    "We will continue doing public education and having private conversations with members who are wrestling with this issue," Cushing said.

    The last time the House and the Senate voted to repeal the death penalty was 2000, but the bill was vetoed by then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat. More recently, the House passed a bill in 2014, but it died in the Senate, and the Senate deadlocked on a bill in 2016.

    New Hampshire's death penalty applies to a relatively narrow list of crimes, including the murders of police officers, judges or prosecutors or killings during kidnappings, robberies or rape. The state hasn't executed anyone since 1939, though one person is on death row.

    The repeal bill wouldn't apply to Michael Addison, who was convicted of murder in the death of Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, but opponents argued it is possible courts could see it differently. Addison, in his appeals, argued the death sentence was out of line based on similar cases nationwide.

    Those who voted against a repeal Thursday recalled the deaths of Briggs and Kimberly Cates, who was killed in an attack in her Mont Vernon home in 2009. They spoke of justice for the victims. But supporters of the bill said no one has a right to take a life unless it's an act of self-defense, and that the death penalty doesn't deter people from killing. They also cited mounting costs for the state to fight appeals.

    http://www.eagletribune.com/news/law...0c920ed72.html
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    Sununu veto keeps state's death penalty law intact

    CONCORD, N.H. — Gov. Chris Sununu delivered Thursday morning on his promise to veto a measure passed in the New Hampshire House and Senate to repeal the state's death penalty law.

    The governor delivered a statement from his office to discuss his decision to veto the death penalty repeal bill.

    In April, the House passed Senate Bill 593, which would repeal the state's death penalty, by a 223-116 margin. The vote fell short of the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override a Sununu veto.

    The Senate voted in favor of the bill by a 14-10 vote, also short of the override threshold, in March.

    “I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death penalty," the governor said after the House vote in April. "A top priority of my administration has been to strengthen laws for crime victims and their families. Repealing the death penalty sends us in exactly the wrong direction, and I will veto this bill once it reaches my desk.”

    The bill wouldn't apply to the state's only death row inmate, Michael Addison, who was convicted in the 2006 capital murder of Officer Michael Briggs. Opponents of repeal warned that despite the bill’s language repealing the death penalty only for future murders, Addison’s attorneys will move in court to have his penalty reduced to life in prison.

    The last time a convicted murderer was put to death in New Hampshire was in 1939.

    State lawmakers last sent a death penalty repeal bill to the governor's desk in 2000, when then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen vetoed it.

    http://www.wmur.com/article/sununu-t...rsday/21748316
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    Senate fails to override veto on death penalty bill

    CONCORD, N.H. - Lawmakers failed to override Republican Gov. Chris Sununu's veto of a bill that would have abolished the death penalty but managed to do so with two controversial energy bills.

    The state Senate Thursday voted 14-10 to overturn the governor's veto on the death penalty, two votes shy of the 16 needed to override a gubernatorial veto. In the case of bills supporting the biomass industry and net metering, the Senate overrode the vetoes. The bills now go to the House.

    In vetoing the death penalty bill, Sununu said he had an obligation to support law enforcement and deliver justice for victims.

    The state hasn't executed anyone since 1939, and the repeal bill would not have applied retroactively to Michael Addison, who killed Manchester Officer Michael Briggs and is the state's only death row inmate.

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    Death penalty repeal bill passes New Hampshire House

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire House has once again voted to repeal the state's death penalty, this time with a wider margin than in the past.

    Last year, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a similar bill, and the Legislature lacked the votes to override. Thursday's vote of 279-88 showed supporters have more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto, and the bill now goes to the Senate, where repeal supporters also appear to have a veto-proof majority.

    The state hasn't executed anyone since 1939, and the repeal bill would not apply retroactively to Michael Addison, who killed Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006 and is the state's only death row inmate. But supporters of capital punishment argue that courts will see it differently.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/art...e-13669261.php
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    Death penalty repeal bill passes New Hampshire House

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — With a veto-proof majority, the New Hampshire House voted Thursday to repeal the state's death penalty after hearing from a freshman Democrat who fled Afghanistan as a child and a longtime Republican lawmaker grieving his wife's recent death.

    New Hampshire's capital punishment law applies in only seven scenarios: the killing of an on-duty law enforcement officer or judge, murder for hire, murder during a rape, certain drug offenses or home invasion and murder by someone already serving a life sentence without parole. Lawmakers have considered bills to repeal it every session for the last two decades, and passed them twice, but lacked the votes to override gubernatorial vetoes.

    In the most recent case, the Senate fell two votes short of the 16 needed to override Republican Gov. Chris Sununu's veto last year. But after the November election, both chambers appear to have veto-proof majorities in favor of repeal. Thursday's vote in the House was 279-88, well over the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override.

    Among those arguing for repeal was Safiya Wazir, a 27-year-old Democrat whose family fled the Taliban when she was 6. She said the United States should remove itself from the troubling list of nations endorsing government-sponsored violence, and she invoked New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" motto.

    "Let's put the emphasis on living," she said. "New Hampshire is better than this."

    Rep. David Welch, has supported the death penalty for 34 years as a lawmaker and former chairman of the Criminal Justice committee. But his wife's death two years, two months and seven days ago changed that, he said.

    "The grief I've experienced since then has been horrible and it has not diminished," he said. "An inmate on death row has loved ones that care for him in spite of what he has done. The victim's family goes through grief similar to what I went through. When that inmate is put to death, there's another family going through that grief. Both families are innocent, and they both went through the same thing."

    The state hasn't executed anyone since 1939, and the repeal bill would not apply retroactively to Michael Addison, who killed Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006 and is the state's only death row inmate. But supporters of capital punishment argue that courts will see it differently.

    Rep. Jeanine Notter, R-Merrimack, mentioned Briggs's death in arguing against repeal, but focused much of her speech on recounting the brutal machete and knife attack that killed a Mont Vernon woman during a home invasion in 2009. The death of Kimberly Cates led to an expansion of the death penalty two years later.

    "The current law that covers limited situations of murder is working, so why change it?" she said. "I believe that life in prison is not justice for a heinous crime such as this."

    While Cates's husband supported expanding the death penalty, Rep. Renny Cushing, said many family members of murder victims oppose capital punishment. His own father was murdered in 1988, and he has sponsored multiple repeal bills over the years.

    "If we let those who kill turn us into killers, then evil triumphs and we all lose," he said. "That does nothing to bring back our loved ones. All it does is widen the circle of violence."

    The bill now goes to the Senate. Sununu told reporters last month he will veto it if it gets to his desk.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/art...e-13669261.php
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