N.J. Expected to Repeal Death Penalty
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NEW YORK -- New Jersey is set to become the first state to legislatively abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court restored it in the mid-1970s. Opponents of capital punishment hope the state's action may prompt a rethinking of the moral and practical implications of the practice in other...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country.
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The Supreme Court returned to work Monday to hear pleas from death-row inmates to force states to use different drugs or tighten their procedures to reduce the risk that prisoners will suffer excruciating pain during their executions.
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New Jersey could become the first Northern state to apologize for slavery under a measure due for a legislative committee hearing this week.
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A killer whose life was spared last year when Illinois' governor emptied out death row could again face a death sentence &#151; this time in Missouri &#151; if convicted of murdering his boss in St. Louis.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment
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The prosecutor's office that spared the infamous Green River serial killer said Tuesday it would seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing the family of a soldier serving in Iraq.
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'Had not deterred murder' New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965.â¦
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TRENTON, N.J. - Following a conversation with Gov...
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By Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Missouri prison officials have until Oct. 27 to submit a revised protocol for putting condemned inmates to death, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.   U.S.
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New Jersey will become the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty under a measure lawmakers approved Thursday and the governor intends to sign within days.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Monday that it would decide whether a death row inmate's  constitutional rights had been violated by forcing him to  appear at his sentencing while shackled in leg irons and  handcuffed to a belly chain in front of the jury.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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The legislature appears poised to throw out the death penalty, which was reinstated by Governor George E. Pataki 10 years ago.
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A narrow majority of Supreme Court justices appeared to signal yesterday that they intend to strike down the death penalty for teenage murderers
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The death penalty is to be used this week in Connecticut - and New England - for the first time since 1960.