Some decry N.J. death penalty abolition
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Marilyn Flax has never been involved in political campaigns.
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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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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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In Camden, N.J., the stigma of being seen as a snitch prevents many from talking about even the worst crimes.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is considering whether the United States is out of step with the rest of the world, and with national and global standards of decency, by allowing teenage killers to be put to death.    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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Leading contenders for the presidential nominations all support the death penalty. A look at their positions:
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Attorney General Phill Kline on Wednesday asked the Kansas Supreme Court to reconsider its decision striking down the state's death penalty law.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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Standing on the roof of California's death row, Warden Jill Brown looks down at the exercise yards and sees troubling possibilities. An old masonry wall with razor wire on top and a strip of grass are practically all that stand between condemned men and the San Francisco Bay.
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As the country prepares for local elections on Sunday, many are finding that the murder and intimidation that once defined politics here are diminishing.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges against the use of lethal injection, according to a report by a group that opposes capital punishment.
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The state becomes the first in modern times to abolish capital punishment, as momentum builds across the country to reconsider seldom-used death-penalty statutes
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The debate over an additional death row in San Quentin, Calif., focuses on real estate prices and views, not on the fact that the prisoners essentially serve life sentences.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law a measure repealing New Jerseyâs death penalty, making the state the first in a generation to abolish capital punishment.
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TAMPA, Florida, Sep 26 (IPS) - An influential lawyer's group in the United  States has strongly criticised Florida's death penalty  system, calling it ambiguous and secretive.
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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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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.