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Renny Cushing, the executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights and a member of the New Hampshire state legislature has an OpEd in today's Concord Monitor, "175 years ago, a plea to end the death penalty." The effort to abolish capital punishment in the United States follows in large measure from the late 18th- and early 19th-century "anti-gallows" movement, which opposed public hangings. One of the earliest political leaders to call for ending executions, public or otherwise, was New Hampshire Gov. William Badger. This month marks the 175th anniversary of Badger's asking the New Hampshire Legislature to abolish capital punishment. In his address, Badger compared the possible punishments for capital crime in New Hampshire relative to their effectiveness: solitary confinement in prison for life versus the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).