NationStates Jolt Archive

Fantastic!!! A huge win for human rights!! (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ae1OkYiDK.Z0) :)

Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine said he plans to sign legislation repealing the state's death penalty within days.

Corzine said the bill, passed by the Legislature this week, would end uncertainty in a state where no inmate has been executed since 1963. The signing hasn't been scheduled, said his spokeswoman Lilo Stainton.

``It's going to be two or three days, not months,'' Corzine, a Democrat, told reporters at the state capitol in Trenton yesterday. ``We would be better served as a society if we have clear and certain outcome for an individual who has carried out a heinous crime.''

The measure would make New Jersey the first U.S. state to revoke the death penalty. The repeal of a law that has stood for a quarter of a century may serve as a catalyst for other states to end capital punishment, opponents of executions said.

I think it's easy for New Jersey as they haven't executed anyone for quite, but Texas might be last one standing when it comes giving it up.

I think it's easy for New Jersey as they haven't executed anyone for quite, but Texas might be last one standing.
Yup, I tend to agree with you there.

From http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=186

I think most US states would not have an big issue except ... Texas. They execute more people in Texas than the rest combined.

From http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=186

I think most US states would not have an big issue except ... Texas. They execute more people in Texas than the rest combined.

That's because Texas is one of the absolute worst when it comes to racism, fundamentalist religious beliefs, and dipshit idiocy.

Thankfully not everyone there is like that and those that are can, as always, change if they are willing.

Welcome to the civilized world, New Jersey.

Isn't New Jersey some kind of toxic waste dump? :confused:

So 13 states will have abolished this arcane, exceedingly impractical punishment, along with the District of Columbia. Now just 37 down plus the federal government, and we'll have joined the civilized world.

My guess is that the next states to abolish it are perhaps Connecticut, New York, and South Dakota, who never executes anyone anyway and was recently revealed to be the happiest state in the Union. Happy people just don't put other folks to death.

California may do it as well, but the last states to do so, I predict, are Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, and Ohio. Missouri will abolish it before Ohio does, and so will just about everyone else. The only two states to execute more than one person this year are Texas - and Ohio, the Fascist Asshole Lawmaker Capital of the World.