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The year in death

December 23, 2007

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IN NEW JERSEY last week, Governor Jon Corzine signed a bill to abolish the state's death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. The governor called the change an expression of "our best efforts to search for true justice, rather than state-endorsed killing." New Jersey is often a political bellwether. In becoming ... (Full article: 479 words)

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