NJ signs first bill in decades banning executions

NJ signs first bill in decades banning executions

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"New Jersey on Monday became the first state in more than three decades to abolish the death penalty after a state commission ruled the punishment is "inconsistent with evolving standards of decency."

In signing the bill, Gov. Jon Corzine called it a "momentous day" and made the Garden State the first state to ban capital punishment since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/17/death.penalty/

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