Looks like New Jersey outlawed the death penalty. Are you for or against the death penalty? This is a hard question for me as I think concentrations of power in certain communities abuse their power and can easily lead to the railroading of innocent people or at least unpopular people. Against some slime who commits atrocious murders, I have real trouble seeing why anyone would want to keep this person alive even if his or her life is quite miserable. In prisons in the US, some of these monsters are looked up at by other prisoners.

I spent some time around MN prisoners as part of Legal Assistance to MN Prisoners while a law student at the U of MN Law School. Did not come across anyone I thought might have been an innocent person who had been convicted of a crime that they did not commit. It has happened in various states though that an innocent person is found on death row.