The state Senate Budget Committee has sent legislation to the full Senate that would abolish the death penalty. A vote is likely in both houses next week and legislation could go to the governor before Christmas.
Let’s hope the Legislature adopts this bill and that New Jersey’s action can spur other states to abandon our foolish societal obsession with hard justice.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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