CONCORD (AP) - The attorney for the only inmate on death row in New Hampshire - a state that last carried out an execution in 1939 - will be among the panelists addressing the logistical and social ramifications of the state's death penalty during a symposium at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
The symposium Wednesday will feature the chief superior court judge; the corrections commissioner and Michael Addison's lawyer, David Rothstein, among others.
Addison was sentenced to death in 2008 for gunning down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, as Briggs attempted to arrest him for robbery. His case is on appeal to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
If his sentence is upheld, Addison could become the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939.
The Supreme Court heard a full day of arguments on his sentence and appeal in November. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said after the arguments he thinks it could take the court a year or more to rule, based on the number of issues raised and the thousands of pages of briefs and transcripts.
Strelzin said in November that if the court vacates Addison's sentence on constitutional grounds, the state would be barred from again seeking a death penalty in his case.
Briggs, 35, was 15 minutes from the end of his shift when he and his partner - both on bicycle patrol - confronted Addison and another suspect Oct. 16, 2006.![]()
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