New Jersey abolishes the death penalty

The state of New Jersey has become the first US state to abolish the death penalty in over thirty years.

In an interesting footnote to this news, one of the people who has as a result had their death sentence turned into life imprisonment is Jesse Timmendequas, whose murder of Megan Kanka resulted in the so-called “Megan’s Law” which some people have often campaigned for in Britain.

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