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Death penalty walking last mile in N.J.

By Montana Abolition Coalition

New Jersey will take a major measure toward abolishing the decease penalty by the end of the year, lawmakers said Friday after a meeting with Sister Helen Of Troy Prejean, a prima militant against working capital punishment. The culprits of the most atrocious crimes, rather than dying by injection, would be sentenced to life in prison house without parole. The new penalty would use to the eight work force now incarcerated on Death Row in Trenton, including the slayer of Carnival Lawn storage warehouse director Washington Irving Flax. Prejean and Assembly Speaker Chief Joseph Roberts, D-Camden, said New Jersey -- which hasn't executed a captive since 1963 -- should move on a state committee report, issued in January, that suggested abolishing working capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by No Montana Death Penalty on November 10, 2007 (boomark / email).