The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted down a bill that would’ve reinstituted the death penalty half a decade after the state chose to do away with it. The House rejected it as part of the consent agenda, which means it did not debate the bill and voted on it alongside several other bills, after […]

The New Hampshire House of Representatives will vote on whether to resurrect New Hampshire’s death penalty Thursday. House Bill 1413, sponsored by Belmont Republican Rep. Douglas Trottier, seeks to reinstitute the death penalty in New Hampshire. This comes more than six years after the state Legislature repealed New Hampshire’s death penalty in 2019. However, Gov. […]

Gov. Kelly Ayotte announced Wednesday she will give her annual State of the State address Feb. 5 at 10 a.m. at the State House in Concord. “Since I was sworn in a year ago, we’ve delivered on key promises to Granite Staters: from fixing the broken bail system, to new laws that will speed up […]

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Last week, history was made in New Hampshire. The death penalty was repealed in our state, making N.H. the 21st state to enact a repeal.