New Hampshire High Court Upholds Cop Killer's Death Sentence
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court is upholding the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a Manchester police officer in 2006.
The justices unanimously ruled Thursday that Michael Addison will remain the state's only death row inmate. He was convicted of killing officer Michael Briggs after a violent, weeklong series of crimes that put him at the top of the city's "most wanted" list.
In their first fairness review of a death sentence, the justices said Addison's sentence was fair when compared to those of similar cases across the country involving officers killed in the line of duty.
His lawyers had argued the Briggs killing lacked the brutality of other killings of on-duty police officers.
Addison's lawyers can ask the court to reconsider its ruling.
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