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The Road to Peace and Justice

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That's the title of a speech delivered by New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak, posted today at NJ.com.  LINKOn December 17, 2007, New Jersey became the first state in the Union to abolish the death penalty since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976. When Governor Jon Corzine signed the legislation I sponsored into law, he also commuted the death sentences of eight human beings. The Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Italy, a lay Catholic organization committed to abolishing the death penalty throughout the world, lit up the Roman Coliseum to celebrate this victory for human rights. How was this victory achieved? First, by demonstrating that the death penalty creates the possibility of executing an innocent human being...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).