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Howard Long, the most recent person executed in New Hampshire (1939, 86 years ago) The following is a list of people executed in New Hampshire. Between 1739 and 1939, during which New Hampshire was first the Province of New Hampshire and then became a U.S. state, 24 people were so punished. The method used was hanging.
Capital punishment was abolished in 2019 in New Hampshire for persons convicted of capital murder.It remains a legal penalty for crimes committed prior to May 30, 2019. On May 30, 2019, the New Hampshire Senate voted 16–8 to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto of House Bill 455, which changed the punishment of capital murder from capital punishment to life in prison. [1]
Howard Long (September 21, 1905 – July 14, 1939) was an American convicted murderer who was executed for the 1937 murder of 10-year-old Mark Neville Jensen in Gilford, New Hampshire. Long remains the most recent person to be executed by the state of New Hampshire. [1]
New Hampshire: 14 July 1939: Howard Long: murder: hanging: A New Jersey: 22 January 1963: Ralph Hudson: murder: electric chair: A New Mexico: 6 November 2001 [96] Terry Douglas Clark: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A New York: 15 August 1963: Eddie Lee Mays: murder: electric chair: C North Carolina: 18 August 2006 [97] Samuel Russell ...
List of people executed in New Hampshire This page was last edited on 7 August 2017, at 03:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A New Hampshire woman was sentenced Friday to 53 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs before his 19-pound body was found buried ...
Ruth Blay (June 10, 1737 – December 30, 1768) [1] was a schoolteacher executed by the Province of New Hampshire. She was the last female executed in New Hampshire . Biography
Penelope Kenny (died December 27, 1739) was executed by hanging for the murder of her child in the Province of New Hampshire, along with Sarah Simpson, who was also convicted of murdering her child. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]