New Jersey abolished the death penalty in December 2007.  Multimillionaire Governor Jon Corzine announced the day he signed the abolition bill that he had taken a step forward for humanity: 

This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the grievous, even heinous, crime of murder.

Corzine, a Democrat who was defeated in the next election in that heavily Democratic state by a former US Attorney, would undoubtedly be heartened to know that his Superior Enlightenment has rescued from a jury's judgment the following character, whose arrest is reported today by MSNBC

NJ man accused of killing 5 people in 2 months

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A man accused of killing a Jersey City, N.J., couple on the day of their engagement party has been charged with 3 other killings in the city.

Shiquan Bellamy and two women had been charged in the Easter killings of the engaged couple, 27-year-old Michael Muchiaki and 25-year-old Nia Haqq.

On Monday, the 19-year-old Bellamy was charged in the Feb. 2 felony murders of cousins Mileak Richardson and Lester "Bleek" Thompson. He also was charged with killing Lamonte Wright on March 27.