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A gray-haired man in a dark suit and a woman in a checked jacket each raise a right hand in a wood-paneled room with a fireplace, a mantel clock and U.S. and New Hampshire flags. — 2024 file photo: Chief Justice Gordon J. MacDonald, left, swears in Melissa B. Countway as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the court's David Souter Conference Room in Concord, N.H., on Jan. 2, 2024. Countway wrote the court's Oct. 6, 2026, decision in the Addison case. Credit: New Hampshire Judicial Branch

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New Hampshire Supreme Court dismisses Michael Addison's bid for new death sentence review

The court ruled only on what state law allows, one comparative review, which Addison had in 2015. It did not decide whether his sentence is constitutional after the 2019 repeal; that claim is still in superior court.

Published Oct 8, 2026