Override the death penalty abolition veto

Jean Burling
Cornish
To the Editor,

The New Hampshire legislature has the chance to override Gov. Sununu’s veto of the bill to abolish the death penalty in New Hampshire when it meets in September. Please urge your representatives to override his veto and once and for all end this sentence. With the real possibility of innocent defendants found guilty, a death sentence is final with no possibility of righting that wrong. The State of New Hampshire must not be an executioner in a world where no other industrialized country, except for China, sentences defendants to death. The governor claims that families and friends of murder victims require a death sentence to assuage their grief. In fact, accounts report that the death penalty is not closure for the survivors. Additionally, New Hampshire has no death chamber, and to build one would be extremely expensive, notwithstanding that the procedures for execution are questioned vigorously in many jurisdictions.

 

Jean Burling

Cornish