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.Singer has introduced a bill to bring back the death penalty for those convicted of certain capital crimes including the murder of police officers and children under the age of 14. He said the contentious, divisive bill has the support of Gov. Chris Christie, a fellow Republican but even so, it's an emotional issue in an election year.
But there's another glaring consideration: During the 24 years in which it was on the books in New Jersey at a cost to the state over that time of about $253 million, according to a 2005 report from New Jersey Policy Perspective the death penalty was never imposed.
The last time anyone was put to death in New Jersey was in 1963.
The bill would also cover those who perpetrate mass murders or terrorist attacks resulting in more than one death.
"I think right now, if that bill came up in the Senate to reinstate it, it would pass," Singer said
Death penalty debate is revived in N.J. | NJ.com
I was always on the fence about the death penalty until the murder of Megan Kanka. (Megan's Law). That monster deserved to die.
Congressman Dick Zimmer stated, "I believe he is exactly the kind of predator that the legislature had in mind when it enacted the death penalty." The court sentenced Timmendequas to death, and the sentence was upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court on appeal.[4] Timmendequas remained on New Jersey's Death Row until December 17, 2007, when the New Jersey Legislature abolished the state's death penalty. This ban resulted in Timmendequas's sentence being commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[5][6]
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