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“This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the grievous, even heinous, crime of murder.”

– New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, speaking on Monday after signing into a law a measure abolishing the death penalty in his state. The Washington Post notes that New Jersey’s action makes it “the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.”

Source: Washington Post, Dec. 17.