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Article: Lawmakers seem ready to retire the death penalty
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- December 15, 2003
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HERB JACKSON
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-15-2003
Lawmakers seem ready to retire the death penalty
HERB JACKSON
Date: 12-15-2003, Monday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition
Column: CAPITAL GAMES
The last time New Jersey created a commission to study the death penalty, in 1997, the goal was to carry out executions faster.
Gov. Christie Whitman's executive order noted that in the 15 years since capital punishment had been restored, more than two-thirds of the 46 death sentences handed up by juries had been overturned, and none of the rest had been carried out.
More than six years later, one person on death row has been killed, but he died in a brawl with another ...