New Jersey's legislature may soon be the first in the country to repeal a death penalty law. While courts in other states have struck death penalty statutes, this would be the first time a legislative body eliminated executions since the Supreme Court reinstated them 31 years ago.
New Jersey has the death penalty, but the state hasn't actually executed anyone since 1963.
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