i worked the phones from home on this campaign on and off over the past 15 months...when governor corzine signs the bill passed by the new jersey assembly on thursday, new jersey will become the first state to outlaw the death penalty in over 40 years...this historic result will not have come about overnight, but as a result of a brick by brick effort led by new jerseyans for alternatives to the death penalty in coalition with amnesty international activists and other partners in the state...
in 2005 and 2006 coalition members successfully lobbied for a moratorium on executions and a commission to conduct an in-depth study of the death penalty...the commission concluded that the death penalty does not address violent crime or make new jerseyans any safer, and diverts valuable resources from victims' compensation and proven crime prevention measures...
those findings coupled with lobbying by coalition activists persuaded new jersey legislative committees, then the Senate, and finally the assembly that the death penalty was a colossal public policy failure...legislative campaigns in other states are now underway and with help from you, our grassroots activists, we can continue to make the death penalty in the united states history, state by state, brick by brick...
peace out <3>
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