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New Jersey Must Do Away With the Death Penalty

By Lependorf & Silverstein

New Jersey lawmakers are poised to make an historical decision next month ? on whether to do away with the death penalty. If the legislature is in agreement, New Jersey will be the first state in the United States to abolish capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976. Instead, the highest punishment will be life in prison without the possibility of parole. According to an Associated Press news report in CBS News? Web site (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/09/ap/national/main3481432.shtml), no one has been executed in the state of New Jersey in the last 44 years although the state currently has eight men on death row. The State Assembly is set to vote on this very important issue Dec. 13. The governor has also sent a message to the legislature that he looks forward to working with lawmakers to do away with the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on November 21, 2007 (boomark / email).