New Hamshire repeals death penalty with one inmate on death row
New Hampshire, which has not executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, has become the latest US state to abolish the death penalty when the state senate voted to override the governor's veto. The senate vote came a week after the 400-member house voted by the narrowest possible margin to override Republican governor Chris Sununu's veto of a bill to repeal capital punishment.
"Now it's up to us to stop this practice that is archaic, costly, discriminatory and final," said senator Melanie Levesque.
