lethal injection

LESNIAK: SUPREME COURT RULING SHOULD GENERATE DEATH PENALTY OPPOSITION

Release Date: Apr 16 2008

TRENTON Senator Raymond J. Lesniak, sponsor of the law enacted last year to abolish the death penalty in New Jersey and author of The Road to Abolition: How New Jersey Abolished the Death Penalty, issued the following statement after the U.S.

January 16, 2008 - 3:28pm

Is lethal injection really dead in NJ?

Well if you have read or viewed some of the recent press reports, you might be a bit confused.

Let’s start with the broadcast coverage on the day the death penalty option was abolished in the state: CBS affiliate (Philadelphia KYW-TV) gave its viewers the impression that the newly signed law ending the death penalty also granted the six men on death row a reprieve.

Actually, it was the Governor who commuted their sentences a day earlier.

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