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NAME: US DEATH PEN 20071217Ixx TAPE: EF07/1504 IN_TIME: 10:10:10:19 DURATION: 00:03:08:22 SOURCES: ABC/AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Various, 17 Dec 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST: ABC (WPVI) - No Access NAmerica/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 1. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signing bill to eliminate the state's death penalty 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey: "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing." 3. Corzine holding bill and shaking hands with supporters ++MUTE++ AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 4. Prison guard tower, pan to wall 5. Guard tower and barbed wire on top of prison wall 6. Wide of state assembly in session debating the death penalty bill 7. Lawmaker speaking about bill 8. Lawmakers sitting in desks during debate ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: New Jersey, date unknown ++MUTE SHOTS++ 9. Death row chamber 10. Prison cell on death row 11. Pan up STILL photo of a murdered parents of Sharon Hazard-Johnson ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Pleasantville, New Jersey, date unknown 12. Zoom in to murder scene and police cordon ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Date and location unknown 13. Death row inmate, Brian Wakefield, convicted of murder ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - date unknown 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sharon Hazard-Johnson, opposed to death penalty repeal: "The death penalty is the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime. We all get one life. That's all we get, and for somebody to take somebody else's life away, they get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime." ++MUTE SHOT++ 15. New Jersey state legislative committee meeting on the death penalty repeal bill, pan to witness 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rich Kanka, Murder victim's father, opposed to death penalty repeal: "She (his daughter, Megan Kanka) was abducted. She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem. Her body was dumped in a park. Now if that does not constitute gross and heinous, I don't understand what you people are thinking about." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 17. Former New Jersey death row inmate Robert O. Marshall 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert O. Marshall, New Jersey inmate: "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment." ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet File - New Jersey, date and location unknown 19. Pan of death row area in a prison ++MUTE++ ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sister Helen Prejan, anti-death penalty activist: "The Colosseum in Rome is going to be lit tonight and tomorrow night, and the word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United States of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 21. Prison guard tower STORYLINE: The state of New Jersey has become the first in four decades in the United States to abolish the death penalty. The bill, approved last week by the state's Assembly and Senate, replaces the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The move comes as the top US court, the Supreme Court, considers the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. The Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed the law on Monday, the abolition spares the lives of eight men who are currently being held on death row in the state. Corzine commuted their sentences to life in prison without parole. "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing," said Corzine after the signing. The death row inmates include the sex offender who murdered seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994. Megan's father, Rich Kanka, had pleaded with lawmakers not to pass the bill, given the nature of the crimes against his daughter. "She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem," said an emotional Kanka at a hearing with lawmakers before the vote. Sharon Hazard-Johnson, whose parents were killed in Pleasantville in 2001, said justice had not been served. "For somebody to take somebody else's life away, they should get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime," said Hazard-Johnson. A judge spared Robert O. Marshall the death penalty in 2004 after he had spent 18 years on the state's death row. While speaking to the Associated Press from the New Jersey State Prison, Marshall, an insurance salesman convicted of hiring a contract killer to kill his wife in 1984, said the death penalty isn't likely to deter crimes and it won't to bring solace to the families of the victims either. "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment," he said. Activists on both sides of the issue had passionately lobbied the State Assembly, including a famous anti-death penalty advocate, and author of 'Dead Man Walking', Sister Helen Prejean. "The word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United State of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred," said Prejean after the bill signing. The Italian capital plans to shine a golden light on the Colosseum in support of the new law. Once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, the Colosseum is now a symbol of the fight against the death penalty. The bill passed the Legislature largely along party lines, with controlling Democrats supporting the abolition and minority Republicans opposed. Republicans had sought to retain the death penalty for those who murder law enforcement officials, rape and murder children, and those convicted under terrorism law, but Democrats rejected that. The last states to eliminate the death penalty were Iowa and West Virginia in 1965, according to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The United States has executed 1,099 people since the U.S. Supreme Court re-authorised the death penalty in 1976. Last year, 53 people were executed, the lowest since 1996. Other states have considered abolishing the death penalty recently, but none has advanced as far as New Jersey.
Footage Information
Source | ABCNEWS VideoSource |
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Title: | US Death Penalty - New Jersey becomes first state in 42 years to ban death penalty |
Date: | 12/18/2007 |
Library: | APTN |
Tape Number: | VSAP547548 |
Content: | NAME: US DEATH PEN 20071217Ixx TAPE: EF07/1504 IN_TIME: 10:10:10:19 DURATION: 00:03:08:22 SOURCES: ABC/AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Various, 17 Dec 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST: ABC (WPVI) - No Access NAmerica/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 1. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signing bill to eliminate the state's death penalty 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey: "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing." 3. Corzine holding bill and shaking hands with supporters ++MUTE++ AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 4. Prison guard tower, pan to wall 5. Guard tower and barbed wire on top of prison wall 6. Wide of state assembly in session debating the death penalty bill 7. Lawmaker speaking about bill 8. Lawmakers sitting in desks during debate ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: New Jersey, date unknown ++MUTE SHOTS++ 9. Death row chamber 10. Prison cell on death row 11. Pan up STILL photo of a murdered parents of Sharon Hazard-Johnson ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Pleasantville, New Jersey, date unknown 12. Zoom in to murder scene and police cordon ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Date and location unknown 13. Death row inmate, Brian Wakefield, convicted of murder ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - date unknown 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sharon Hazard-Johnson, opposed to death penalty repeal: "The death penalty is the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime. We all get one life. That's all we get, and for somebody to take somebody else's life away, they get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime." ++MUTE SHOT++ 15. New Jersey state legislative committee meeting on the death penalty repeal bill, pan to witness 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rich Kanka, Murder victim's father, opposed to death penalty repeal: "She (his daughter, Megan Kanka) was abducted. She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem. Her body was dumped in a park. Now if that does not constitute gross and heinous, I don't understand what you people are thinking about." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 17. Former New Jersey death row inmate Robert O. Marshall 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert O. Marshall, New Jersey inmate: "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment." ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet File - New Jersey, date and location unknown 19. Pan of death row area in a prison ++MUTE++ ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sister Helen Prejan, anti-death penalty activist: "The Colosseum in Rome is going to be lit tonight and tomorrow night, and the word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United States of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 21. Prison guard tower STORYLINE: The state of New Jersey has become the first in four decades in the United States to abolish the death penalty. The bill, approved last week by the state's Assembly and Senate, replaces the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The move comes as the top US court, the Supreme Court, considers the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. The Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed the law on Monday, the abolition spares the lives of eight men who are currently being held on death row in the state. Corzine commuted their sentences to life in prison without parole. "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing," said Corzine after the signing. The death row inmates include the sex offender who murdered seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994. Megan's father, Rich Kanka, had pleaded with lawmakers not to pass the bill, given the nature of the crimes against his daughter. "She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem," said an emotional Kanka at a hearing with lawmakers before the vote. Sharon Hazard-Johnson, whose parents were killed in Pleasantville in 2001, said justice had not been served. "For somebody to take somebody else's life away, they should get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime," said Hazard-Johnson. A judge spared Robert O. Marshall the death penalty in 2004 after he had spent 18 years on the state's death row. While speaking to the Associated Press from the New Jersey State Prison, Marshall, an insurance salesman convicted of hiring a contract killer to kill his wife in 1984, said the death penalty isn't likely to deter crimes and it won't to bring solace to the families of the victims either. "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment," he said. Activists on both sides of the issue had passionately lobbied the State Assembly, including a famous anti-death penalty advocate, and author of 'Dead Man Walking', Sister Helen Prejean. "The word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United State of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred," said Prejean after the bill signing. The Italian capital plans to shine a golden light on the Colosseum in support of the new law. Once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, the Colosseum is now a symbol of the fight against the death penalty. The bill passed the Legislature largely along party lines, with controlling Democrats supporting the abolition and minority Republicans opposed. Republicans had sought to retain the death penalty for those who murder law enforcement officials, rape and murder children, and those convicted under terrorism law, but Democrats rejected that. The last states to eliminate the death penalty were Iowa and West Virginia in 1965, according to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The United States has executed 1,099 people since the U.S. Supreme Court re-authorised the death penalty in 1976. Last year, 53 people were executed, the lowest since 1996. Other states have considered abolishing the death penalty recently, but none has advanced as far as New Jersey. |
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