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To this date, Ralph Hudson's 1963 electrocution is the last execution in New Jersey's state history. [4] In 2006, New Jersey lawmakers drafted a moratorium on executions while a task force studied the fairness and cost of the death sentence. New Jersey had eight people on Death Row at the time. [5] On December 10, 2007, the New Jersey Senate ...
These industries have been relocated to South Woods State Prison. NJSP also housed New Jersey's death row for men and execution chamber until the state abolished capital punishment in 2007. [2] One notable inmate is Jesse Timmendequas, who was formerly on death row for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to some reports, Simon had a reputation for taunting fellow inmates at New Jersey State Prison, and apparently selected a convict named Ambrose Harris – who had been on death row for kidnapping and killing 22-year-old artist Kristin Huggins in 1992. Harris and Simon had been assigned to side-by-side cells in the facility's capital ...
The New Jersey rabbi serving a decadeslong sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot targeting his wife has died. Fred Neulander, 82, was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday at a hospital ...
Protestors standing outside the New Jersey State House protesting Hudson's impending execution. Hudson remained on death row in the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton for 13 months between his death sentence and his execution. During his stay in the death house, he was described as a quiet "model prisoner" who spent most of his time watching ...
In 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, a death penalty opponent, signed legislation that officially eliminated capital punishment in the state; because of this, Harvey and the other seven New Jersey death row inmates were resentenced to life in prison. [19] In 2015, Harvey appealed his conviction and again was granted a new trial. [20]
Cameron Williams' death was the third reported death at the state's maximum security prison in the span of eight months. Third Waupun prison death ruled a stroke, with timing still under investigation
On August 18, 2006, Marshall was resentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in eight years. This made Marshall, incarcerated since his arrest, eligible for parole in 2014. [4] Until his removal from New Jersey's death row, Marshall had been the longest-serving inmate there since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1982.