NH high court begins Michael Addison death penalty review
By Associated Press
Saturday, January 3, 2009 -
Saturday, January 3, 2009 -
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Supreme Court has begun its first review of the state’s death penalty law in the case of Michael Addison, who was sentenced to death for killing Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs.
Addison is the first person sentenced to death since 1959 and his was the first death sentence returned under the state’s capital murder law. The law went into effect in 1991.
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