New Hampshire
Since 1734, 24 executions have been conducted. Since 1868, all executions have been conducted at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. New Hampshire allows execution by lethal injection, although hanging is available if lethal injection is impractical; the state has no death chamber as its last execution was in 1939. A bill to repeal the death penalty was vetoed in May 2000 by then-Governor Jeanne Shaheen; subsequent attempts have not left the legislature.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael "Stix" Kiser Addison | Murder by shooting of an on-duty police officer on October 16, 2006 | December 2008 | Currently New Hampshire's only death row inmate |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates
Famous quotes containing the word hampshire:
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)