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State Legislature Likely to Ban the Death Penalty

By Lependorf & Silverstein

New Jersey is buzzing this week about the state legislature?s vote on whether to ban capital punishment. The state Senate has already voted in favor of the ban; the Assembly and Gov. Corzine are expected to follow suit. They?re following a national trend: The U.S. Supreme Court, several state Supreme Courts and a few governors have suspended executions by lethal injection (or in some cases, all executions) pending the outcome of a case challenging the legality of lethal injections. In response, the Associated Press published an interesting article today breaking down changes our nation could expect if we had no death penalty, and arguments for and against it. As we?ve said before on the New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog, we believe the legislature is right to end the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on December 19, 2007 (boomark / email).