Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Reason for Pride in Jersey

By standdown

pThat#39;s the title of an editorial in today#39;s Newark Star-Ledger.#0160; a href=http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2008/12/reason_for_pride_in_jersey.htmlLINK/a/pp style=margin-left: 40px; Criticizing the Legislature is something of a civic sport in New Jersey. It#39;s not hard to find an issue that lawmakers have botched or ignored. Most of the time, the carping is well deserved. But every now and then, they get something right. br / br / So it was with abolition of the death penalty a year ago today. New Jersey remains the only state to have repealed the death penalty by legislative means -- a distinction worth boasting about. Others have eliminated capital punishment but only after the courts ordered them to do so. br / /p div style=margin-left: 40px;a name=more/a Our opposition to the death penalty has been unwavering for decades...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).