Executions Resume

William Lynd died in Georgia last week. Lynd’s death marked the resumption of executions in the United States after the Supreme Court decision that the Lethal Injections practiced by 35 of the 36 states with death penalties did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

Lynd is the first man to be executed since Michael Richard was executed in Texas on September 25, 2007.

Lynd’s death brought the total number of execution up to 1,100 since executions were resumed in 1977. 405 of these executions have been in Texas. 902 have been in the South.

Meanwhile, in the State of New Jersey, a seminar on the fight to abolish the death penalty was held at Seton Hall Law School and Senator Raymond J. Lesniak from Elizabeth has published a book entitled “The Road to Abolition, How New Jersey Abolished the Death Penalty.”

There are still some voices of reason in the United States.