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The Nashua Telegraph reports, "Proposed death penalty study meets opposition."  It's written by Kevin Landrigan.Attorney General Kelly Ayotte squared off against a Roman Catholic bishop and retired judges Tuesday over whether a proposed commission studying the death penalty would prejudice two capital murder trials set to start this summer.Ayotte urged the state Senate to kill legislation creating the first comprehensive review of New Hampshire's death penalty since the Supreme Court allowed states to carry it out in 1973.In August, Jay Brooks will face a potential death penalty for the June 2005 kidnapping and murder of Jack Reid who was found in Saugus, Mass., beaten to death and left in the back of a truck.A month later, Michael Addison goes on trial for the Oct...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).