Abolition of the Death Penalty in New Jersey Conference Scedule

LEGISLATION, LITIGATION, REFLECTION AND REPEAL:
The Legislative Abolition of the Death Penalty in NJ

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Conference Sponsors	Seton Hall Law School The Stein Center for Law & Ethics, Fordham Law School The New Jersey State Bar Association The New York City Bar Association
Legislative Materials	New Jersey Constitution 1947 Repeal - December 17, 2007, S171 New Jersey Legislature Governor Corzine’s Remarks on Signing of the Repeal Bill [text] [audio] Floor Debates Senate December 10, 2007 Start time: 00:10:05 End time: 01:22:32 Assembly December 13, 2007 Start time: 00:07:18 End time: 02:23:45
The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission	Legislation Creating the Death Penalty Study Commission Death Penalty Study Commission Website Report of the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission
Race and the Death Penalty	Reports of Special Master David S. Baime Systemic Proportionality Review 2005 Systemic Proportionality Review 2003 Systemic Proportionality Review 2002 Written Testimony of Prof. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School, to the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Governor’s Study Commission on Implementation of the Death Penalty Executive Order No. 72 1997
Citizen Action	New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Death Penalty Information Center The Innocence Project Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Legislative Materials
New Jersey Constitution 1947
Article 1 Rights and Privileges
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8. No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases of impeachment, or in cases now prosecuted without indictment, or arising in the army or navy or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger.

9. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate; but the Legislature may authorize the trial of civil causes by a jury of six persons. The Legislature may provide that in any civil cause a verdict may be rendered by not less than five-sixths of the jury. The Legislature may authorize the trial of the issue of mental incompetency without a jury.

10. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel in his defense.

11. No person shall, after acquittal, be tried for the same offense. All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or presumption great.

12. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines shall not be imposed, and cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted. It shall not be cruel and unusual punishment to impose the death penalty on a person convicted of purposely or knowingly causing death or purposely or knowingly causing serious bodily injury resulting in death who committed the homicidal act by his own conduct or who as an accomplice procured the commission of the offense by payment or promise of payment of anything of pecuniary value.

(Amended November 2002)