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New Jersey First State To Abolish The Death Penalty


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I love living in this state. At least our legislators have a moral conscience. The death penalty is unconstitutional, does not deter crime, kills innocent people, and is more costly through appeals than simply giving life in prison sentences. And abolishing the death penalty is not being "soft" on crime, it is being "just." Thank you NJ for showing the world that at least one state in this country has a conscience and a brain. Now we need thirty five more to follow your lead.
JanforGore

10 responses // New Jersey First State To Abolish The Death Penalty

  • One tiny step toward civilization. Maybe it will catch on and spread until the thought of killing for vengeance becomes abhorrent. We might even stop being war mongers?
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Sorry, but it'll be back. Just as soon as there is an absolutely reprehensible crime and someone talks about how much tax money is spent keeping that criminal incarcerated for the rest of his life and how justice really isn't served if this criminal gets to live and the victim didn't, then the same people who are screaming for the death penalty to end now will be equally screaming for its return tomorrow.
    DJMatt2
  • lfm
    • lfm
    • 9 months ago
  • Accually, a life sentence is much cheaper than being on death row. A convict on death row gets three appeals, and not many of them can afford a lawyer so the state must provide one. Then the price of the lethal injections "three-drug coctail" is very high. On average the total cost of keeping someone on death row is around $1.4 million, give or take a couple thousand. Someone else said that the death penalty "kills innocent people", but with DNA it's hard to convict an innocent person. I do support the death penalty in the cases of criminals who rape and kill childern and women. Ones like that should not have parole.
    speak_2my_heart
  • There will always be bad people in society, no matter how many people we kill with the death penalty there will always be more bad people.

    The problem with killing those people is that is it NOT an effective deterrent for others to commit the terrible crimes that can land you on death row. Neither is jail apparently, so what can we do that is better (worse) than throwing people in jail to rot with other criminals and learn to do even worse crimes.
    cheyroze
  • http://imdb.com/title/tt0289992/
    i know it's an old movie, but well worth watching on this topic.
    oldskoo
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,222759...
    Breaking news! Read the full story here....
    mischabarrett
  • Oh! This is amazing!
    jamesia
  • I am impressed by the wisdom and initiative of the elected officials in the state of New Jersey!

    Two thumbs up. The death penalty has no place in a civilized society - and another reason we should prosecute Carl Rove for his involvement in pushing it on a Federal level - Evil is as Evil does - to quote a box of chocolates.
    VoyagerFilms
  • VoyagerFilms:

    We already have the death penalty on a Federal level: it's called "war."
    JanforGore

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