Entries tagged with “Racial Bias

Nov 17, 2025

ACLU Files Amicus Brief for New Hampshire’s Sole Death Row Prisoner, Raising Concerns About Racial Disparities and Disproportionate Sentencing

On October 30, 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire and the ACLU Capital Punishment Project joint­ly filed a 27-page ami­cus brief on behalf of Michael Addison, an African American man and the only remain­ing per­son under a death sen­tence in New Hampshire. Mr. Addison was con­vict­ed in 2008 of cap­i­tal mur­der for the fatal shoot­ing of a white Manchester police offi­cer. The fil­ing cites find­ings from the Capital Jury Project (CJP), which show that…