NEW JERSEY KILLS DEATH PENALTY
By R J Shulman
TRENTON – New Jersey became the first state to abolish the death penalty when Governor Jon Corzine signed a new bill into law. The bill was passed due to recent exonerations due to DNA testing and the belief that the death penalty was not applied fairly and evenly among certain segments of the population.

This bill passed the New Jersey legislature despite stiff opposition. “Now murderers will flock to New Jersey,” said Otto Meisner, of the Keep Killing Koalition, staunch supporters of the death penalty. “So if some guy from New York feels the urge to kill, all he has to do is take the short ride through the Holland tunnel and murder someone in Jersey City.” “The tragedy of this decision,” said William Stanton, also of the KKK, “is that best way to show killers that killing is wrong is to kill them and this bill kills that possibility.”