Seriously, did the writer actually use the term "masses?" Might as well insert the implied modifiers "unwashed" and "ignorant" up front. Someone has a healthy dose of hubris.

"...taking a bold and decisive action because it's morally right..."

Please be aware that there is NO such thing. You believe it's right because it agrees with YOUR position. Elected officials going against popular desires is called misrepresentation.

In fact, they made no such moral judgment on the death penalty. According to the blogger, the Legislature made the decision because they found:

"Around the country, procedural safeguards and other assurances of fundamental fairness in the administration of capital punishment have been revealed to be deeply flawed."

It was the administration of the death penalty, not its moral weight, that appeared to sway the legislature. A very pragmatic argument.

Further, to argue that the death penalty, by itself, is immoral is also to imply that the right to self-defense does not encompass the right to kill an aggressor if necessary. We get enough lunatic Christian-inspired moral judgment from the far right -- we don't also need this sort of simpering Christian-inspired lunacy from the far left, too.

Also please note that NJ residents, when polled about the death penalty *or a viable alternative* responded 53% in favour of life without parole.

It's amazing how many conservatives who are support the death penalty are coming around to the idea that the system is broken. William S. Sessions said: "New Jersey's comprehensive study of the death penalty revealed that current systems of capital punishment are terminally flawed. If we are to continue to use the death penalty in America we have both a moral and a legal obligation to make it a faultless method of punishment. As a nation, we can no longer countenance a system that endangers the lives of innocent Americans."

The new jersey who joined the 13 other states and most of the world's industrialized democratic countries.The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights.By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide starts today the Program “Abolish the Death Penalty in the World”, looking to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.

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