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New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]
His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite. [169] [170] [171] Isaack Rabbanovitch August 1891: A bear walked into the barkeep's inn in Vilna, Russia (now part of Lithuania) and picked up a keg of vodka. When he tried to take it back, he was hugged to death by the intoxicated bear along with his two sons and daughter.
New Jersey became the first state to pass such a moratorium legislatively, rather than by executive order. Although New Jersey reinstated the death penalty in 1982, the state has not executed anyone since 1963. The abolition vote was recommended by a report from the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission. [13]
In Search of the "Jersey Man-Eater": An Exhaustive Investigation of the Infamous Shark Attacks that Plagued the New Jersey Shore during the Summer of 1916. Deal, N.J.: George Marine Library, 1986. OCLC 16678080; Fleming, Thomas J. New Jersey: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. ISBN 0-393-30180-X. Genovese, Peter.
New Jersey Transit has released the identity of the pedestrian who was fatally hit by a train Wednesday morning in South Orange. Thomas J. Gates, 51, of South Orange was fatally hit by the Morris ...
Atlantic City, New Jersey: 50–52 1918 Split Rock, New York: Accident – explosion Split Rock, New York: 50 1925 Rockport train wreck: Accident – railroad Hackettstown, New Jersey: 50 1947 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410: Accident – aircraft Near Charles Town, West Virginia: 50 1951 United Airlines Flight 610: Accident – aircraft
The coldest month on record was February 1934, when New Jersey's average temperature was 17.2 degrees, according to state records. Still, 1904 stands as the coldest year on record in New Jersey.
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