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More good news from New Jersey.

Amid growing unease about capital punishment and a state moratorium on executions, a legislative commission recommended today that New Jersey become the first state in more than 35 years to abolish the death penalty. With just one of its 13 members dissenting, the commission said there was “no compelling evidence” that
the death penalty served a legitimate purpose and increasing evidence that it “is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency.” The panel recommended replacing capital punishment with the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The death penalty is a moral outrage, unbecoming to any civilized nation in the 21st Century. Banning it would do New Jersey proud.

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