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14 Jan 2008, 9:49 am
The Harrisburg Patriot-News reports, "State forms plan to ensure humane executions. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 9:09 am
As opponents of capital punishment, we favor following the path of New Jersey, which abolished the death penalty last year and converted the sentences of eight inmates on death row to life without parole. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 4:33 am
"Much more recently in the United States, Subtopia informs us, floating prisons have been met with less than enthusiastic welcomes from federal authorities, though New York City still operates a jail ship at Rikers Island:during the early 90's when New York City, aiming to fix its overcrowded prison problems, built a "five-story jail barge" -- the Bain -- as big as two football fields, to store 800 prisoners, that was at one… [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 10:33 pm
But the voltage may not be sufficient to stop the heart and prisoners sometimes require more than one blast, despite severe damage to internal organs gas is used in five US states. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 8:46 pm
There is nothing to indicate that a majority of this court feels any need to go beyond technicalities or to deal with any of the serious questions about the death penalty which have led to growing doubts about its retention, led New Jersey to abandon it, and led other states to consider following New Jersey.Some opponents of the death penalty argue that it is, in this country, in this time, inherently cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 9:21 am
This included a detailed retelling of the facts of the crime committed against Megan Kanka in New Jersey. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 3:42 am
Lawyers for the condemned say the process is opento mistakes that could inflict extreme pain, in violation of the EighthAmendment protection from cruel or unusual punishment.A 36th state, New Jersey, became last month the first in more than 40years to abandon capital punishment because of wide-ranging concerns. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 6:37 pm
"Important Court Decisions on Commercial Surrogacy in the United States:The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a seminal decision regarding surrogacy contracts (In re Baby, 537 A 2d., 1227, N.J., 1988) where it found the payment of money to a surrogate mother ‘illegal, perhaps criminal, and potentially degrading to women' (click here for a detailed excerpt from the opinion). [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 11:00 pm
... 1885, suffragist Alice Paul was born to "an upper middle-class Quaker family" in Moorestown, New Jersey. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 2:23 am
Before New Jersey replaced thedeath penalty with a sentence of death in prison, the New Jersey SupremeCourt was the national leader in the struggle against racial and ethnicdisparities in the death penalty. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 12:40 am
Judge Hits State With Sanctions For Discovery Flub in Prisoner's Suit"Lawyers stymied in their attempts to obtain a surveillance video that allegedly showed a New Jersey prison inmate being beaten by a guard can recover attorneys' fees, even though they appeared pro bono. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 6:45 am
Attorney Paul Charlton links his firing to his insistence in Arizona that interviews be recorded • MAY • Byron Halsey, who served two decades in a New Jersey prison after he falsely confessed to the murder and rape of two children, is exonerated by DNA evidence which also identifies the true perpetrator • James Owens, imprisoned for nearly… [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 9:48 am
At the end of 2007, New Jersey became the first state to pass a law abolishing the death penalty in more than 40 years. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 8:05 am
Only one state has abolished capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976: New Jersey, last month. [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 6:19 am
New Jersey Gov. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 2:17 am
New Jersey did the right thing. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 8:23 pm
The New Jersey governor ended the death penalty in that state this month and the enthusiasm for executions waned nationwide in 2007, with the fewest executions in a decade. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 12:36 pm
This week New Jersey ended the death penalty as a form of criminal punishment. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 6:44 pm
This New Jersey law is overbroad and violates other constitutional rights! [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 7:59 am
By any measure, 2007 has been an amazing sentencing year, and I am not sure how to rank the significance of all these events: New USSC reduced crack guidelines USSC decision to to make its new guidelines retroactive Supreme Court's post-Booker decisions in Rita and then Gall and Kimbrough The "celebrity" sentencings of Conrad Black, Paris Hilton, Lewis Libby and Michael Vick Commutation of Lewis Libby's sentence by President Bush … [read post]
