On Thursday, the New Jersey Senate voted overwhelmingly (30 to 6) to suspend all executions in the state while the death penalty's flaws are studied and addressed.
The Assembly will vote in a few weeks, and hopefully New Jersey will become the first state in the U.S. to legislatively impose a moratorium on the death penalty.
[Read more.]
This should set an example for other states to take similar measures to ensure justice, not revenge, and to stop risking the execution of innocent people who may be unjustly convicted. (We know it's happened.)
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