Death Penalty

                              
On December 17, 2007, Governor Jon Corzine signed a law abolishing the death penalty in New Jersey.  To mark the occasion, on December 19, 2007, the Coliseum in Rome was lit to read "No Justice Without Life."  

• The Catholic Bishops of New Jersey Issue Statement on the 10th Anniversary Abolition of the Death Penalty
• A Statement of the Catholic Bishops of New Jersey on the Death Penalty
• Statement of Most Reverend John M. Smith to the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee on the Death Penalty (May 10, 2007)
• Statement by Patrick Brannigan on On the Findings of the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission (January 2, 2007)
• A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death a Statement of the USCCB Calling for the End of the Use of the Death Penalty