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New Jersey and the Death Penalty

New Jersey allows the death penalty as an option in cases of purposeful or knowing murder and cases of contract murder.

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

Minimum age for death penalty: 18

Executions 1930-1976: 74

Executions since 1977: 0



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