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Innocence Project – N.H. Death Penalty: Hearings continue on bills that would reinstate death penalty in New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. — Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring capital punishment back to New Hampshire.

The opposition testifying Thursday included a former death row inmate.

“I was convicted in 1985, wrongfully convicted in 1985 of first-degree murder, which I didn’t commit,” said former death row inmate Paul Hildwin.

Hildwin spent three decades on death row in Florida before DNA evidence proved his innocence.

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