NJ Politics and Fairness - The Death Penalty Study Scam

I started paying attention to the abolishment of the death penalty in this state when proponents of the change noted a commission recommendation that it would "save money". This was while the New York Times was running a story on how the death penalty SAVES LIVES. Forging ahead, I always wondered about this commission who came up with the political cover to assist in enacting another law which two thirds of our state didn't agree with.

Well, low and behold, it was a stacked deck. As Michael P. Tremoglie from the Philadelphia Bulletin writesin this piece:

This commission was a paradigm of a study, which already knew what it wanted to say and simply went about collecting evidence to support its opinion. From the beginning, it was intent on abolishing capital punishment, and its conclusions were derived from those who want to do so.

In the article it refers to the fact that 8 of the 13 commissioners were against the death penalty (this from a former Presecutor Mary Zdobinski writing for Northjersey.com) and the rest didn't agree with it either. This is a typical New Jersey stacked deck. Governor Corzine is so concerned that the state might potentially kill someone who doesn't deserve it (I don't know how with today's trial, appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal, Governor commutes sentance culture), he fails to even consider the Associated Press finding that executing convicted murderers saves 3-18 innocent lives.

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