http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/1/3/21051/83154 A new report has been released by a special government commission in New Jersey fueling the debate over a <a href="http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_002133139.html">punishment</a> that has not been used since 1963. The report, coupled with the fact that the state has its first anti-death penalty governor since 1982 and a potentially sympathetic legislature could mean that NJ could soon become the 13th state without the sentence. en-us Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:46:08 EST Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:23:50 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/1/3/21051/83154#2 This brings to mind an interesting case that happened on the NJ Death Row.<p> One inmate, triple murderer Robert Mudman Simon, was on death row for killing a cop while being on parole for another murder, died on NJ death row after many years. Not from the Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:23:50 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/1/3/21051/83154#1 I think it's interesting that the death penalty in the US is going out with not a bang but a whimper...individual states are having fewer and fewer executions each year as jurors become less willing to recommend the death penalty, and thus it is becoming m Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:34:25 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/