The NH House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety has recommended defeat for HB 1706, a bill that would expand the applicability of the capital murder statute in three areas: homicide committed in conjunction with robbery, homicides committed under "especially heinous, cruel, or depraved" circumstances, and causing the death of more than one person while committing any other criminal act.
Meanwhile, HB 162, which would expand the death penalty to include all "purposeful" homicides, has been tabled in the House. It could come back with amended wording at any time, but would need a two-thirds majority of House members to be taken off the table.
Please let your Representatives know you want the death penalty repealed, not expanded.
If you do talk to any of your Representatives, please contact Selina Taylor at the NH Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty to tell her what they said about their views on the bill.
Click here for a fact sheet on HB 162.
One good way to join the long-term effort to prevent and stop executions in New Hampshire is to join the the NH Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, which works to inform people about the injustice of capital punishment, prevent its use in New Hampshire, and eliminate execution from the State's methods of punishing criminal offenders.
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