Death Penalty abolished in New Jersey?

Question

Please explain the logic to me here..... 54% of the NJ populace SUPPORTS capital punishment..... How could they do this?

2-get a grip Barry C - would you be spewing that crapola if it were your daughter or son brutally murdered by one of these criminals? The death penalty isn't meant to be a deterrent despite what the liberal zombies tell you- its about JUSTICE and PROTECTING SOCIETY.

Answer 1

I am against abolition of death penalty.There is no rationale or logic, behind anyone supporting this. Maybe the 46% you are speaking of, are those who do not know the grief and sorrow of loosing your near and dear one, to someone's insane and inhuman act of killing. Now a days, you'll find such sycophants aplenty. For them, showing misplaced sympathy is a symbol of being different from others. They are the people you'll find roaming the streets,placards in hand,demanding justice for terrorists,murderers,criminals and whatnot. Their sole aim is being photographed for cheap publicity so that they can boast of their so called achievements, before people of their kind.They are least concerned thereafter. See their reactions, when their daughters are raped or some near one, murdered. The very same people will, shout themselves hoarse demanding punishment like death. What I mean to say is that they have no logic in their demands but the irony is that this minority figure of 46% decides what is good and bad for the majority 54%. Its nothing but plain vote bank politics.You will find this situation prevailing everywhere.The pity is that we have grown impotent before this minority figure.Isnt it correct ?

Answer 2

New Jersey did the right thing and in the right way. It instituted a year long study commission before taking up an abolition bill. Among the many witnesses before the commission were families of murder victims who do not support the death penalty. I have given a link to the commission report, below.

You don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people. Your question is much too important to settle without thinking about these.

125 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in those that don’t.

We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.

The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

Answer 3

The death penalty has nothing to do with justice. It is simply state-sanctioned murder and revenge. It isn't a deterent..if it was, death rows across the U.S. would be empty.

I don't necessarily like Corzine but I applaud the actions. There is no need for a death penalty...life without parole accomplishes the same thing and doesn't involve killing someone.

Hope the rest of the states follow.....

Answer 4

Because the people didn't decide this issue: The people they elected as governor and to the legislature decided it.

If these 54% of the people that support the death penalty is that upset, it will show in the next election.

Answer 5

did you know it actually costs more for someone to be put to death than to just rot in a cell? and i think that if lethal injection is the way that these people are put to death, they were getting off too easy anyway. i believe in capital punishment but i think that the government has made it so difficult to try a person for the death penalty, it has become a better option to just let them rot. i think that it should be an eye for an eye. you shoot someone, someone shoots you. that kind of thing. lethal injection is a joke. our government makes me queezy.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

We don't rule by plebiscite, but by careful deliberation of elected officials subject to checks and balances.

Anyway, do you think anyone is less deterred from committing murder in NJ today then they were last week?

Or are you just a blood thirsty vengeance seeking person sitting behind a keyboard unaware of even the foundational principles of our justice system?

Because our *entire* system of justice, not just murder cases, is NOT based on vengeance as a driving principle. In case you didn't know :)

Answer 8

Since when do politicians always do what the majority wants? Anyway, 54% is not a significant majority. All it shows is that the state is virtually evenly split. 70% is a more significant number. That's the percentage of people who wanted Bush to sign the SCHIP bill, the one he eventually vetoed.

Answer 9

I am going to stay away from the can of worm debate on death penalty, but law makers make law and subsequently abolish law. Citizens elect them but they have no right in the actual law making or abolishing. That's how they did it.

Answer 10

Capital punishment is a barbaric form of revenge and should be abolished from all civilized countries of the wold. If NJ did it more power to them.