Nearly two decades after Michael Addison gunned down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs, the New Hampshire Supreme Court has agreed to hear Addison’s latest appeal — one that could determine whether he remains the state’s lone death row inmate.

Addison, now 45, was convicted of capital murder in 2008 and sentenced to death for the October 2006 killing of Briggs. He has exhausted multiple rounds of appeals, with the state’s high court repeatedly upholding both his conviction and his sentence.

But in 2019, the legislature abolished the death penalty in New Hampshire, making Addison’s case a unique test of how far the repeal extends.

Addison filed a petition earlier this year asking the Supreme Court to lift his death sentence, arguing that executing him now would be “unjust” because

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