In 2019, New Hampshire became the 21st state to repeal the death penalty. With growing momentum across the country to abolish the death penalty, are there lessons to be learned from the states that have recently done so? Join Jeanne Hruska for her interview with Renny Cushing, a NH Representative who led the effort to repeal the death penalty in his state, about how this genuinely purple state succeeded in repealing the death penalty after many fits and starts.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, ACS, Senior Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Today's Guest: Renny Cushing, NH House of Representatives

Link: The Death Penalty in America, by ACS

Link: NH's Death Penalty Repeal Legislation

Link: Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights

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Production House: Flint Stone Media

Copyright of American Constitution Society 2021.

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