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New Jersey Death Row Closure ? What Now?

By Lependorf & Silverstein

New Jersey?s controversial decision to replace the death sentence with life without parole has taken on a new face as the state closes its death row and transitions prisoners to other parts of jail. It?s also confused New Jersey residents, some of whom are still reporting on death row cases and who misunderstand what has become of the six men who sat on New Jerseys? death row prior to last month?s ban on lethal injection in the state. As Debbie Holtz points out in her blog on Politicker NJ, the men were not in fact reprieved by the abolition of the death penalty. Rather, the governor commuted their sentences. What does the lack of capital cases in New Jersey mean for New Jersey criminal defense lawyers? A sigh of relief, for one. Now one legal misstep won?t lead to a client?s death...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).