The New York times reported today:
CONCORD, N.H. — Soon after the man who killed his father with a shotgun blast to the chest was captured, Renny Cushing ran into a friend at the grocery store, who said that he hoped the culprit would be executed so that Mr. Cushing’s family could find some peace.
“I didn’t know how to respond,” recalled Mr. Cushing, who is now a New Hampshire state representative. “I knew he was trying to give me some comfort.”
Mr. Cushing, a Democrat, was then — and is today — a death penalty opponent. And in the 31 years since his father’s murder, he has become one of the nation’s leading opponents of capital punishment. But his efforts at repeal in his home state have always fallen short.
That may soon change: "The New Hampshire State Senate is expected to vote on Thursday morning to repeal the death penalty, after a 279-88 vote for repeal in the State House last month.
Twice before — in 2000, and again last year — both chambers have voted for repeal, only to be blocked by a governor’s veto.
This time, backers of repeal are hopeful that 16 of New Hampshire’s 24 senators will vote their way. That would give the measure the two-thirds majority needed to override another anticipated veto by the governor, Chris Sununu, a Republican who is a capital punishment proponent.
If that were to happen, New Hampshire would become the last state in New England to get rid of the death penalty."
Another issue that should strongly affect the vote is the multitude of errors that are being already made with many NH laws that are now independently being only illegally redefined by each judges' personal individual definitions of law, now throughout NH's entire Judicial branch of government. They are clueless to what each other are doing.
Even the NH Bar Association has stated that practicing law in the state of New Hampshire, is like trying to practice to evade new daily "traps for the unwary " in a court of law, being made up now only by many intemperate NH state judges.
The New York Times article further stated that, "State Senator John Reagan, a Republican who favors repeal, said he had long believed that the government’s primary role was to keep people safe, and that the death penalty was part of that.
His views changed, though, because “the more and more experience I had with government, I concluded that the general incompetency of government didn’t make them the right people to decide life and death.”
But it is Mr. Sununu who remains the principal opponent to abolishing the death penalty, and who, according to supporters of repeal, has continued to urge Republican colleagues to reject the legislation.
But Mr. Renny Cushing said Mr. Sununu had avoided meeting with the relatives of victims who see the issue the same way Mr. Cushing does.
GOD FORBID A NH STATE GOVERNOR WERE TO ACTUALLY NOW LISTEN TO HIS TAXPAYERS AND ACTUAL CUSTITUENTS.
“The governor has positioned himself as saying he’s vetoing the repeal of the death penalty because he cares about law enforcement and victims, but he’s refused to meet with murder victims’ family members who oppose the death penalty,” Mr. Cushing said.
What’s more, the state does not actually even have an execution chamber at this point. (State law authorizes lethal injection as the means of execution, with hanging as a backup option.)
Lately, NH government has yet to bring an idea to full fruition to see it's completion since it has been a state that only settles for doing things only halfway or just simplify it by doing nothing at all.
Like simply substituting the NH men's state prison for over thirty years as secured medical facility, only without any proper medical treatment available. Other than the guards, (not nurses and/or doctors) using a tazor or simply overdosing hospital patients as the only prescribed order of treatment.
Hospital patients, that were only illegally kidnapped from an actual hospital room and placed in a jail cell now for 23 hours a day against their will. They were being overly medicated just to shut them up, and for some sadly only ended to the point of permanent death.
The debate has evoked powerful emotions on both sides. State Representative David Welch, a Republican, said he changed his mind to favor repeal after his wife died two years ago, causing profound grief and prompting him to be baptized. According to the New York Times article.
“The victim’s family goes through grief similar to what I went through,” Mr. Welch said in a recent speech. But “when that inmate is put to death, there’s another family going through the grief, and they’re innocent.”
CONCORD, N.H. — Soon after the man who killed his father with a shotgun blast to the chest was captured, Renny Cushing ran into a friend at the grocery store, who said that he hoped the culprit would be executed so that Mr. Cushing’s family could find some peace.
Mr. Cushing, a Democrat, was then — and is today — a death penalty opponent. And in the 31 years since his father’s murder, he has become one of the nation’s leading opponents of capital punishment. But his efforts at repeal in his home state have always fallen short.
That may soon change: "The New Hampshire State Senate is expected to vote on Thursday morning to repeal the death penalty, after a 279-88 vote for repeal in the State House last month.
Twice before — in 2000, and again last year — both chambers have voted for repeal, only to be blocked by a governor’s veto.
This time, backers of repeal are hopeful that 16 of New Hampshire’s 24 senators will vote their way. That would give the measure the two-thirds majority needed to override another anticipated veto by the governor, Chris Sununu, a Republican who is a capital punishment proponent.
If that were to happen, New Hampshire would become the last state in New England to get rid of the death penalty."
Another issue that should strongly affect the vote is the multitude of errors that are being already made with many NH laws that are now independently being only illegally redefined by each judges' personal individual definitions of law, now throughout NH's entire Judicial branch of government. They are clueless to what each other are doing.
Even the NH Bar Association has stated that practicing law in the state of New Hampshire, is like trying to practice to evade new daily "traps for the unwary " in a court of law, being made up now only by many intemperate NH state judges.
The New York Times article further stated that, "State Senator John Reagan, a Republican who favors repeal, said he had long believed that the government’s primary role was to keep people safe, and that the death penalty was part of that.
His views changed, though, because “the more and more experience I had with government, I concluded that the general incompetency of government didn’t make them the right people to decide life and death.”
But it is Mr. Sununu who remains the principal opponent to abolishing the death penalty, and who, according to supporters of repeal, has continued to urge Republican colleagues to reject the legislation.
But Mr. Renny Cushing said Mr. Sununu had avoided meeting with the relatives of victims who see the issue the same way Mr. Cushing does.
GOD FORBID A NH STATE GOVERNOR WERE TO ACTUALLY NOW LISTEN TO HIS TAXPAYERS AND ACTUAL CUSTITUENTS.
“The governor has positioned himself as saying he’s vetoing the repeal of the death penalty because he cares about law enforcement and victims, but he’s refused to meet with murder victims’ family members who oppose the death penalty,” Mr. Cushing said.
What’s more, the state does not actually even have an execution chamber at this point. (State law authorizes lethal injection as the means of execution, with hanging as a backup option.)
Lately, NH government has yet to bring an idea to full fruition to see it's completion since it has been a state that only settles for doing things only halfway or just simplify it by doing nothing at all.
Like simply substituting the NH men's state prison for over thirty years as secured medical facility, only without any proper medical treatment available. Other than the guards, (not nurses and/or doctors) using a tazor or simply overdosing hospital patients as the only prescribed order of treatment.
Hospital patients, that were only illegally kidnapped from an actual hospital room and placed in a jail cell now for 23 hours a day against their will. They were being overly medicated just to shut them up, and for some sadly only ended to the point of permanent death.
The debate has evoked powerful emotions on both sides. State Representative David Welch, a Republican, said he changed his mind to favor repeal after his wife died two years ago, causing profound grief and prompting him to be baptized. According to the New York Times article.
“The victim’s family goes through grief similar to what I went through,” Mr. Welch said in a recent speech. But “when that inmate is put to death, there’s another family going through the grief, and they’re innocent.”
