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A New Hampshire Speaks Out Against Captial Punishment

By Steve Hall

Foster's Daily Democrat today carries, "On New Hampshire's death penalty," by Joseph P. Nadeau.It has been my good fortune to serve as a judge in New Hampshire for 37 years. For 13 of those years I was presiding justice of the Durham District Court. I served as a justice of the Superior Court for 18 years, nine of which I spent as chief justice. And I sat on the Supreme Court for six years before retiring in December of 2005. Last week, I appeared before the New Hampshire Commission to Study the Death Penalty, not to talk about facts and statistics or trials and cases but to address the moral issue of death as punishment. The way we have been dealing with the death penalty for years is to talk about enacting laws, adopting procedures, establishing practices and providing mechanisms, as if by creating an elaborate process we could somehow sanitize the death penalty and thereby ignore the moral issues that capital punishment presents...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).