"The New Jersey Senate voted Monday to make the state the first in the country to repeal the death penalty since 1976, when the United States Supreme Court set guidelines for the nation’s current system of capital punishment."
It would seam as though the "Capital/Corporal Punishment" debate is making some headway here in the states... they finally are thinking about dropping the whole "I'm killing you to teach you not to kill people" method of punishment for one that doesn't involve... well, killing people. I say, if they did something that bad, they can die in their own good time in jail if that is deemed the only alternative. New Jersey senator Raymond J. Lesniak, sponsor of the bill, presented it to the New Jersey senate yesterday, where it received the bare minimum number of votes (21 to 16) to pass. 3 senators apparently did not vote. Personally, I'm crossing my fingers.
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