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The abolition of capital punishment did not affect Michael K. Addison, who was sentenced to death in 2008 for the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, a Manchester police officer. [2] Addison is the only person on death row in New Hampshire; the new law does not apply retroactively to his case.
Howard Long, the most recent person executed in New Hampshire (1939, 86 years ago). The following is a list of people executed in New Hampshire.Between 1739 and 1939, during which New Hampshire was first the Province of New Hampshire and then became a U.S. state, 24 people were so punished.
New Hampshire's only death row case in more than 75 years is set to enter the complicated process known as a writ of habeas corpus. [51] A status conference in the case was scheduled for the end of September. Addison was also appealing in federal court, and he had a federal hearing scheduled for May 26. [52]
As of October 1, 2024, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
A former corrections officer was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in the death of a patient at New Hampshire’s prison psychiatric unit nine months ago. Matthew Millar, 39, of Boscawen ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 56 ...
However, the last person on death row in the three states is Michael K. Addison in New Hampshire, convicted in 2008 of the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer. Should the state carry out Addison's execution, the method could be hanging if lethal injection was found unconstitutional or inefficient, or if he chooses to be ...
Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency.. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who ...