death penalty

CARABALLO & BATEMAN: DEATH PENALTY REPEAL ON TRACK FOR FINAL PASSAGE THURSDAY

Measure Would Replace Never-Used Statute with Life Imprisonment without Parole

(TRENTON) - Assemblymen Wilfredo Caraballo and Christopher "Kip" Bateman today urged a key Assembly panel to heed the findings of the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission and abolish the state's capital punishment law and replace it with a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

TRENTON –  Senator Shirley K. Turner, prime sponsor of S-171, the legislation that would replace the death penalty in New Jersey with life in prison without parole, made the follow statement today after the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee approved the bill:

CARABALLO: BIPARTISAN DEATH PENALTY REPEAL
'BASED ON FACTS, NOT POLITICS'

(NEWARK) - Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Wilfredo Caraballo (D-Newark) - sponsor of legislation (A-3716) to replace New Jersey's unused death penalty with life imprisonment without possibility of parole - issued the following statement in response to a press conference held earlier today by Senator Gerald Cardinale:

Child Murderers/Rapists, Cop Killers &Terrorists to Face Lenient Treatment under Trenton Democrat’s Plan

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), issued the following statement regarding Speaker Joseph Roberts announcement that he intends to move forward towards the abolishment of capital punishment in New Jersey during the lame duck session of the legislature.

ROBERTS & CARABALLO SEEK TO MAKE NEW JERSEY FIRST STATE TO LEGISLATIVELY ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY

Assembly Leaders Team with 'Dead Man Walking' Author Sister Helen Prejean, Death Penalty Advocates to Announce December Action

TRENTON –  Senator Shirley K. Turner today welcomed Senate Judiciary Committee approval of her bill to end the use of the death penalty in New Jersey and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole, saying that, “The Legislature can not move quickly enough to get the death penalty ban on the Governor’s desk.”