2020 NH Senatorial race: on Crime

Corky Messner: We need law and order; get bad cops out of the system

Corky Messner: No. "We need law and order." Reform law enforcement "to the extent that bad cops are out of the system" and have "better training . to de-escalate problems."

Jeanne Shaheen: Yes. Ban choke holds; address police reform at its core; "compromise between people who want to totally redefine it and those who don't want to change it at all."

Jeanne Shaheen: Ban choke holds; address police reform

Jeanne Shaheen: Yes. Ban choke holds; address police reform at its core; "compromise between people who want to totally redefine it and those who don't want to change it at all."

Corky Messner: No. "We need law and order." Reform law enforcement "to the extent that bad cops are out of the system" and have "better training to de-escalate problems."

Corky Messner: Criminal investigation requested of Messner Foundation

Messner's campaign says the scholarship program did not begin until 2016 and that a second student recently was awarded funds.

Corky Messner: Arrested for DUI in 1995, pled guilty to lesser charge

Kelly Ayotte: Supports capital punishment for police killers

Governor Sununu came within one vote of having his veto sustained in the House, which voted last week to override the veto, 247-123, just meeting the 2/3 requirement.

Supporters of the death penalty focused most of their arguments on a call for justice in the 2006 murder of Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs by convicted felon Michael Addison, who is awaiting execution. Opponents of the repeal measure argued that Addison will escape execution, even though the bill states that the repeal is not retroactive.

Kelly Ayotte, former U.S. Senator and the attorney general who served as chief prosecutor in the Addison trial, expressed disappointment about the state Senate vote in a tweet: "Police killer Michael Addison is the happiest about their vote today."

Andy Martin: Current crime system is ok, but open to improvements

Jeanne Shaheen: Vetoed bill to abolish death penalty

REP. JIM SPLAINE: My judgment is Governor Shaheen is a very good person. I still support her, despite her position on this issue. She did not really focus in on the arguments about the death penalty during 8 hours of public hearings in the House and 5 hours of public hearings in the State Senate. She was not able to work into her schedule attendance at either of those public hearings, except five minutes at one, where she came and briefly gave her comments against, and then she was out of there.