New Jersey Bans Death Penalty
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed a law on Monday making New Jersey the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty.
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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to honor the grave sites of Declaration of Independence signers, don't count New Jersey in. It says it can't afford it.
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Stay offline or face 18 months in jail, $10,000 fine Convicted sex offenders who used websites to help them commit their crimes are to be banned from using the internet under a tough new measure signed into New Jersey law yesterday.â¦
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Lawmakers in New Jersey vote to abolish the death penalty, making it the first US state to do so in more than 40 years.
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Motorists who cause death on the roads could avoid jail under new official sentencing guidelines
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - A closely divided U.S. Supreme  Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for Connecticut  death row inmate Michael Ross in a move that could clear the  way for New England's first execution in 45 years.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it  would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the  crime of raping a child, expanding its review of how capital  punishment is carried out in the United States.
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WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over whether states should be allowed to execute teenage killers, with several justices raising concerns that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds, and more than 70 juvenile murderers are on death row...
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The death penalty is to be used this week in Connecticut - and New England - for the first time since 1960.
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TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey officials now have some muscle to control the flu vaccine shortage. Gov. James McGreevey has signed into law emergency legislation that would fine doctors $500 who inoculate low-risk people.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the execution of a Texas convict scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 killing of his parents, two days after the court said it will consider whether lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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New Yorkâs highest court tossed out the death sentence imposed on a man for his role in the murders of five workers at a Wendyâs restaurant in Queens.
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For Scott Peterson, ultimately there may be little difference between a death sentence and life in prison. In California, the chances are greater that a condemned inmate will die in prison than be executed by lethal injection.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - The Nebraska Supreme Court struck down the state's reliance on the electric chair for executions on Friday as "cruel and unusual" punishment, leaving no alternative method in its place.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey judge backed a jury's verdict that Merck & Co. properly warned doctors of the safety risks associated with its Vioxx painkiller prior to a Vioxx user's fatal heart attack, a court official said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday over allowing states to execute teenage killers, with several justices raising concerns that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.    Nineteen states allow capital punishment for juveniles, and more than 70 people who committed crimes as 16- and 17-year-olds are on death row...