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18 Dec 2007, 2:30 am
Jon Corzine signs the law as expected, one of the inmates whose life will be spared is Jesse Timmendequas, who killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994, a crime that spawned new laws across the nation to protect children from sex offenders.The Garden State's elected leaders have decided it's more virtuous to let Timmendequas live - albeit behind bars - than to keep alive the flawed system that would have put him to death.Too often in Alabama, we see the… [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 12:51 pm
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine today signed the bill passed by the N.J. legislature last week abolishing the state's death penalty. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 11:52 am
Jon Corzine on Monday signed legislation that eliminates capital punishment as a sentence and replaces it with life in prison without parole. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 9:03 am
Jon Corzine the day before commuted the sentences of eight men sitting on the state's death row. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 8:14 am
Jon Corzine signed legislation repealing New Jersey's death penalty.Co-blogger Abe Bonowitz was on the scene and witnessed the signing ceremony. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 6:42 pm
The other governors supporting her are New York's Eliot Spitzer, New Jersey's Jon Corzine, Ohio's Ted Strickland, Maryland's Martin O'Malley, Arkansas' Mike Beebe and Michigan's Jennifer Granholm. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 1:51 am
Jon Corzine, a staunch opponent of execution, promised to sign the measure very soon. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 1:45 am
Jon Corzine, New Jersey will become the first state to legislatively repeal the death penalty since Iowa and West Virginia did so in 1965.The fact New Jersey acted as it did may surprise anyone not familiar with the growing national discussion over capital punishment. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 1:37 pm
After a vote by the New Jersey General Assembly yesterday, all it will take is a stroke of Governor Jon Corzine's pen to make it official: The Garden State will have abolished the death penalty. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 12:49 am
Jon Corzine said he would sign within a week, would spare the eight men on the state's sparsely populated Death Row; their death sentences would be changed.But the effect on Death Rows across the country is less certain. [read post]