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Addison trial cost state nearly $3m

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Staff WriterThe taxpayer cost to prosecute, defend and sentence William ?Stix? Addison for the October 2007 murder of a Manchester police officer has reached nearly $3 million and will grow by half a million dollars a year while he appeals the verdict.Meanwhile, state prosecutors spent $2.4 million to convict John Brooks, of Londonderry, for ordering the 2005 murder of a Derry handyman.The jury turned down the state?s bid to apply the death penalty and instead Brooks is now serving serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.The Commission to Study the Death Penalty in New Hampshire spent Friday examining the costs to carry out capital punishment.The state hasn?t executed anyone since 1939 and it?s a rare event that two capital murder cases went all the way to the jury in the past two years...continue to full post

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