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New Hampshire's Concord Monitor carries the editorial, "No justice in spending a fortune on execution," today. The state is spending millions of dollars in an effort to execute Michael Addison, the admitted killer of Manchester police officer Michael Briggs. Prosecutors should have stopped long ago, and accepted Addison's offer to plead guilty to capital murder in exchange for a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole. Briggs's death was a great tragedy that killing Addison will do nothing to remedy. Few experts believe that capital punishment serves as a deterrent to murder. Spending millions more in an effort to put Addison to death would compound that tragedy. Since New Hampshire has the death penalty, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is obligated to seek it when there's strong evidence that a capital offense has been committed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).