Kudos !!!!

[marmar]

:thumbsup:


STATES WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY (YEAR ABOLISHED IN PARENTHESES)

Alaska (1957)
Hawaii (1957)
Illinois (2011)
Iowa (1965)
Maine (1887)
Massachusetts (1984)
Michigan (1846)
Minnesota (1911)
New Jersey (2007)
New Mexico* (2009)
New York (2007)#
North Dakota (1973)
Rhode Island (1984)**
Vermont (1964)
West Virginia (1965)
Wisconsin (1853)

ALSO
- Dist. of Columbia (1981)


* In March 2009, New Mexico voted to abolish the death penalty. However, the repeal was not retroactive, leaving two people on the state's death row.

** In 1979, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island held that a statute making a death sentence mandatory for someone who killed a fellow prisoner was unconstitutional. The legislature removed the statute in 1984.

# In 2004, the New York Court of Appeals held that a portion of the state's death penalty law was unconstitutional. In 2007, they ruled that their prior holding applied to the last remaining person on the state's death row. The legislature has voted down attempts to restore the statute.


http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

[fascisthunter]

1. Massachusetts (1984)... symbolic

[hedgehog]

2. I wonder how many people realize that New York does not have

the death penalty, because it comes up so often on old Law and Order shows.

[marmar]

3. True.....

One of my favorite L&O is the one that begins with the execution, and then it shows the impact on each of the main characters on the show.

[teddy51]

4. I was very surprised to learn that the State of Washington has the DP. n/t

[roguevalley]

6. they do. I remember it. Alaska doesn't and when it comes up it

gets slammed down.

[jimlup]

5. Yeah Michigan! We were the 1st /nt

[Snotcicles]

7. +1