Help us commute Michael Addison's death sentence! Join our email campaign!

We are coordinating automated emails to Governor Kelly Ayotte, and the Executive Council to help our community stand against capital punishment.

New Hampshire abolished the death penalty in 2019. Yet Michael Addison, a Black man, remains on death row, carrying a sentence that the state has since recognized as unlawful.

We are calling on Governor Kelly Ayotte, the New Hampshire Executive Council, and the New Hampshire Supreme Court to take every action within their respective authority to prevent Michael Addison's execution and ensure that his death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.

We cannot allow New Hampshire to become the first state in the country to carry out an execution under a repealed death penalty law. New Hampshire has already taken an important step by abolishing capital punishment. Please join our automated email campaign, and demand our government does not subscribe to an archaic aye for an eye 

We therefore demand:

1. That Governor Kelly Ayotte and the Executive Council exercise their lawful clemency authority to commute Michael Addison's death sentence to life imprisonment.

2. That the New Hampshire Supreme Court consider and pursue every lawful judicial avenue available to prevent his execution and address the continued imposition of a death sentence abolished by the state.

3. That New Hampshire uphold the principles behind its abolition of capital punishment and reject the execution of Michael Addison.

The death penalty has no place in New Hampshire. Abolition must mean more than ending future death sentences. It must also mean confronting the sentences that remain, confronting our corrupt local government, and confronting the fact that Kelly Ayotte carried out the prosecution of Mr. Addison while serving as Attorney General.