Renny Cushing, leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, dies at 69
, when the legislature overrode a veto by Gov. Chris Sununu to make New Hampshire the 21st state to abandon capital punishment.During the legal proceedings involving his father’s case, Mr. Cushing at one point encountered the assailant’s son, an experience that he recalled with emotion.
“In a way,” Mr. Cushing reflected, “I was the lucky one because I had my father’s life to celebrate. I am the son of a murder victim. He lives his life as the son of a murderer. And I would not want the pain that I felt in losing my father to go to him. My pain doesn’t get eased by inflicting pain on him.”In 2011, 23 years after the death of his father, Mr. Cushing lost another member of his family to violence when Stephen McRedmond, the husband of Mr.
Robert Reynolds Cushing Jr. was born in Portsmouth, N.H., on July 20, 1952. His mother taught reading. In his home state of New Hampshire, Mr. Cushing worked in welding and carpentry and became a union organizer. He later devoted his organizing energies to the movement against nuclear power, helping to found the Clamshell Alliance to oppose the construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.Mr. Cushing won his first two-year term in the New Hampshire House in 1986, according to his daughter. He returned for another term in 1996 and then another in 2008.
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