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17 Dec 2007, 9:03 am
"The state Assembly approved the measure Thursday by a 44-36 vote after the Senate OK'd it 21-16.New Jersey has not executed a prisoner since 1963.The new legislation replaces the death penalty with life in prison without parole. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 10:18 am
Last week, both houses of the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill to abolish the state's death penalty, a measure the governor has promised to sign.Executions reached their peak at 98 a year in 1999, but then dropped to 53 by 2006 - even before objections to lethal injection arose. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 7:35 am
Official USSC press release on crack retroactivity USSC's "Reader-Friendly" version of retroactivity amendment Some legal particulars around crack retroactivity implementation Latest crack retroactivity FAQ from FAMM "Give them McDeath, not McLiberty" NEW JERSEY DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION DECISION New Jersey on path to kill its moribund death penalty NJ legislature passes bill to abolish state's death… [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 1:59 am
New Jersey's Legislature is voting this week on whether to abolish capital punishment; by doing so it would join 12 other states with no death penalty law. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 11:32 pm
Guardian America has, "New Jersey to become first state in four decades to abolish death penalty. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 1:37 pm
The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission, formed last year, released a report in January of 2007 that found it costs the state more money to execute a prisoner than imprisoning the inmate for life. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 9:17 am
John Massameno, a senior assistant state's attorney, objected to the case as 'the most egregious abuse of the writ of habeas corpus that we have witnessed and that the courts have accumulated a record of.' It took place on the same day that the New Jersey Assembly approved legislation to abolish its death penalty. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 8:17 am
The New York Times has, "New Jersey Moves to End Its Death Penalty. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 1:13 am
New Jersey's Legislature is voting this week on whether to abolish capital punishment; by doing so it would join 12 other states with no death penalty law.This isn't the first hiatus for executions. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 12:49 am
"New Jersey's legislation followed the work of a special state commission that earlier this year found that the death penalty was a more expensive sentence than life in prison, had not been effective as a deterrent to murder and carried the risk of executing an innocent person.The New Jersey Senate approved the bill on Monday. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 12:44 am
. -- The state Senate approved legislation Monday thatwould make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penaltysince 1976, when the U.S. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 9:10 pm
(Video of former New Jersey prison warden Gary Hilton.) [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 5:33 pm
The New Jersey House joined the state senate and today voted to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 2:05 pm
"The New Jersey Assembly approved legislation Thursday to abolish the state's death penalty, making Gov. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 8:36 am
Eight men are imprisoned on death row in New Jersey, but the state has not executed anyone since 1963. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 3:53 pm
" Tomorrow, the ACLU of New Jersey, with the Women's Committee of the NJ Prison Justice Coalition, will lead a rally at the New Jersey State Prison to protest the incarceration of women prisoners in a men's facility. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 7:58 am
" New Jersey voters oppose eliminating the death penalty, yet prefer sentencing murderers to life in prison without parole, according to a new poll. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 3:47 pm
The state Senate approved legislation Monday that would make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty since 1976, when the U.S. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 11:47 am
[JURIST] The New Jersey Senate Monday voted 21-16 to pass a bill [S171 text, PDF] that would abolish the death penalty [JURIST news archive] in the state and replace capital punishment with life in prison. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 4:53 pm
New Jersey is on track to become the first state in 40 years to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
