Robertr Cushing News Today

As someone born and raised in New Hampshire, a small state in the US, it was surprising that the first time I heard of Renny Cushing, a US politician, was when I began my work on researching the death penalty in Taiwan. Renny was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Democrat from the town of Hampton. First elected in 1996, he served nine non-consecutive terms. The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) has had a long relationship with Renny and his humanitarian e...

Maria Wilkinson of Concord is a research intern in Taiwan at Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP). As someone born and raised in New Hampshire, it was surprising that the first time I heard of Renny Cushing was when I began my work on...

Moved to action by grief over his father's murder, he was also an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War and the use of nuclear power.

Even after his father was murdered, he opposed capital punishment and led the effort to repeal it in New Hampshire. Three decades later, he succeeded.