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By Steve Hall

Today's Union Leader reports, "Supreme Court asked to review death penalty fairness," by Dale Vincent.The New Hampshire Supreme Court was asked yesterday to decide what type of cases should be used to judge the fairness of the death penalty leveled against cop-killer Michael Addison.A defense lawyer asked the five-person court to consider similar cases that were eligible for the death penalty, both in and even outside the Granite State.But the prosecution wanted a much more narrow pool -- 49 cases nationwide where a policeman was killed in the line of duty and the death penalty was upheld.Yesterday's hearing on a procedural question was the second time the Supreme Court has heard arguments in the Addison case. Addison received the death penalty for the October 2006 killing of Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs...continue to full post

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