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Supporters of convicted murderer Pam Smart – who has always maintained her innocence – are launching a Twitterstorm on Sunday to support her release after she has spent 27 years in prison for coercing her teenage lover into killing her husband Greg Smart.
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To persuade payers and the public, the industry has deployed a potent new ally, a company whose marquee figures are leading economists and health care experts at the nation’s top universities.
Today the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted 17-3 to recommend an ITL (inexpedient to legislate) motion on HB 351, a bill to expand the death penalty by making “a person who knowingly causes the death of a child guilty of capital murder.”
Retired Nashua Police Officer Tony Pivero testified in last week’s hearing to suppress the confession Anthony Barnaby gave in 1988 after the murders of two women, while prosecutors tried to paint Pivero as out yet again to embarrass the department.
New York Times reporter Benjamin Mueller was in a hallway of a Bronx housing project. He was watching its residents mop up the blood of a 59-year-old woman who had been murdered days before.
The use of wood chips and pellets for heating businesses, schools and government buildings has grown dramatically in the last five years and is reportedly saving three hospitals in the North Country alone about $750,000 a year.
AG Office: Timothy Verrill, age 34, of Dover, was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder for knowingly causing the death of Jenna Pellegrini by stabbing her multiple times and for knowingly causing the death of Christine Sullivan by stabbing her multiple times and striking her in the head with a blunt object.
Justin Plamondon is a transgender woman locked up in the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the State Prison for Men in Concord and she is not alone in the prison system. There are 10 other transgender women incarcerated with men in Concord and one in the Berlin prison.