对死刑废除的看法 要求英文

Don't expand capital punishment, abolish it

New Hampshire lawmakers have been asked to expand the death penalty to cover crimes like that of Michael Woodbury, the Maine man who killed three people in an Army Navy store in Conway last July.

Was Woodbury's crime worse than the alleged crime of John "Jay" Brooks, the millionaire charged with hiring hit men to kidnap and kill someone he believed had stolen from him? Was it worse than the alleged crime of Michael Addison, charged with killing a Manchester police officer? Brooks and Addison face the death penalty. Woodbury, who pleaded guilty, did not.

Because he did not commit one of the six offenses punishable by death under New Hampshire law, he is serving life without parole.

It's logical to argue that if a state sanctions death as the punishment for certain offenses, the penalty should apply to multiple murders. But the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.