Well, at least they aren't hanging anymore.
Michael Addison, a black 28-year-old with a prior criminal record, admits he shot and killed Michael Briggs, a white, 37-year-old police officer/family man in Manchester, NH, in 2006.
The last person put to death in NH was in 1939. This year, white millionaire John Brooks was faced with the death penalty for a murder-for-hire and kidnapping charge but was given a life sentence instead. "If you have money like Brooks does, you certainly won't have to use lawyers like these." Via NHPR.
Addison, who suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and was raised by his grandmother in a housing project in Roxbury, MA, was described by a friend as a "relaxed type person" but one who is "not very bright, obviously, if he's going to pull a gun on a cop."
When Addison's death sentence was read yesterday, Maryanne Briggs, Briggs' mother, felt that justice had been served. "My family is just so happy," she says.
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