USA - New Hampshire. Death is one of the issues expected to dominate the 2014 legislative session.

Death is one of the issues expected to dominate the 2014 legislative session. Death penalty repeal advocates are hoping a sympathetic Gov. Maggie Hassan will help win support to strip capital punishment from the state's books. Lawmakers voted to repeal the law in 2000, but then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen vetoed the bill. The Senate is the key to repealing the state's death penalty. Supporters believe they can win passage in the Democrat-controlled House, but the repeal bill's fate is less clear in the Senate. "This is a really hard issue," said state Rep. Renny Cushing, the bill's prime sponsor. If the law is repealed, it wouldn't affect the status of Michael Addison, who was convicted of killing a police officer in 2006 and is the only person on death row.