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New Hampshire Reconsiders Definition of Capital Crime:  Nashua Telegraph writer Kathy Cleveland reports on Tuesday's New Hampshire Senate hearing discussing a bill to classify home invasion killings as capital crimes.  This bill was prompted by the October 4th murder and home invasion in Mont Vernon involving four men killing Kimberly Cates and leaving her young daughter for dead.  Currently, New Hampshire's capital murder law only covers the murder of a policeman, and this bill would expand the definition to include "purposely causing the death of another while in another's residence, or attempting to enter another's residence, or after having been in another's residence without invitation or right." Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee was John Quinlan Jr., a Mont Vernon selectman and a friend of the Cates family.  "I am not interested in an eye for an eye," he said.  "We need to make a statement that this will not be tolerated.  There is great frustration among people that no matter what the prosecution does," there will be no justice.  The last execution in New Hampshire was in 1939.

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