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Abe Bonowitz has sent two articles from the recent New Jersey Lawyer covering the Seton Hall symposium on abolition of the Garden State's death penalty. First is, "Five justices refute rumor that court sandbagged executions."In the nooks and crannies and gossipy corridors of the Statehouse in Trenton, virtually any conversation about the death penalty for years usually came around to someone saying the New Jersey Supreme Court, one way or another, would never allow anyone to be executed. "Nothing could be further from the truth," says former Justice Alan B. Handler, perhaps the court's most-ardent death penalty foe in modern times.Now other justices are speaking out, too, on the issue that ultimately may be decided decades from now by historians viewing the quarter-century the death penalty remained on the books without a single convicted killer being executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).