TRENTON, N.J., USA (AP) — Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.The bill, approved last week by the state's Assembly and Senate, replaces the death sentence with life in prison without parole."This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the...
