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Article: [death penalty,Supreme Court]
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- March 2, 2005
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and 18 other states. The executions, the court said, violate the
Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The 5-4
decision throws out the death sentences of about 70 juvenile
murderers and bars states from seeking to execute minors for fut
''d a bill that would do that last year, but then-governor Craig
Benson vetoed it. A similar bill is now before the House.Rep. Jim
Splaine, a Portsmouth Democrat whos sponsoring the bill, said the
courts ruling eliminated the need for a change on the stat
"""''e level. But he said he still hopes the Legislature will
still officially remove the juvenile death penalty law from the state
criminal code.It becomes more of a housekeeping thing ...