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Year of Reenactment
(since 1972 suspension) |
1982 | |
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Year of First Execution
(since reenactment) |
No executions between 1982 and 2007 |
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Year of Abolition
|
2007 | |
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History
|
1898-1905: hanging |
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Current Method
|
None |
In 2007, New Jersey became the first state to legislatively abolish the death penalty since 1965. The sentences of all 8 inmates on death row were commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A moratorium on executions was imposed in 2006 while a study commission examined the fairness and expense of the state's death penalty.