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North Carolina needs to rethink the death penalty

North Carolina needs to rethink the death penalty Feb 6, 2008 Opinion Jump to Comments Stephen Dear & Diann Rust-Tierney Recently, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, crime victims? advocates and both Republican and Democratic state legislators in New Jersey worked together to pass legislation to repeal that state?s death penalty. Gov. Jon Corzine signed the bill into law last month, making New Jersey the first state to legislatively repeal the death penalty since Iowa and West Virginia did so back in 1965. Despite some significant reforms, death penalty systems in other states, such as North Carolina, remain awash in blunders, racial and class bias and runaway expenses, and are long overdue for systematic reviews by their legislatures...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).