Place of Planned Execution
Then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney denied the Federal government consent to execute Sampson in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because capital punishment is outlawed there, but New Hampshire's then-Governor Craig R. Benson consented to doing it in that state, so U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf ordered that Sampson be executed in New Hampshire, which has the death penalty. He also ordered that Sampson be imprisoned in the Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, while awaiting execution. (Terre Haute is where the Federal death house is located.) New Hampshire currently has one person on its death row, Michael "Stix" Addison. Addison was convicted of killing a Manchester, New Hampshire, police officer. On December 22, 2008, the judge on the case imposed a death sentence, along with 63 years' incarceration for prior convictions stemming from a crime spree in the week leading up to Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs' murder.
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