Organizations Calling for an End to the Death Penalty in New Jersey

• American Baptist Churches of New Jersey
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (Newark)
• American Constitution Society, Rutgers Law School Chapter
• American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice (Newark)
• Amnesty International Group #379 (Atlantic County)
• Amnesty International Group #41 (Burlington and Camden Counties)
• Amnesty International Cape May
• Amnesty International, Eatontown
• Amnesty International, Haddonfield
• Amnesty International, Hoboken
• Amnesty International, Holy Angels (Demarest)
• Amnesty International Group 67 (Mercer County)
• Amnesty International, Ocean City
• Amnesty International, Princeton
• Amnesty International, Rockaway
• Amnesty International, West Orange
• Archdiocese of Newark (Roman Catholic)
• Archdiocese of Newark Respect life Office
• Berakah Pax Christi (Rutherford)
• Bergen County Pax Christi
• Black Ministers Council of New Jersey
• Call to Action New Jersey (Berkeley Heights)
• Campaign to End the Death Penalty (New York)
• Catholics Against Capital Punishment (Bethesda, MD)
• Catholicvote.org (Far Hills)
• Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Newark
• Catholic Charities of Camden
• Catholic Citizenship
• Catholic Worker, New Jersey (Elizabeth)
• Center for Family, Community, and Social Justice (Princeton)
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Cherish Life Circle, Sisters of Mercy (Brooklyn)
• Christ Congregation (Princeton)
• Church Women United (Montclair)
• Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
• Coalition for Peace and Justice (Linwood)
• Cooper Plaza Neighborhood Association (Camden)
• Credo Pax Christi
• Cumberland County Green Party
• Dems for Life, NJ chapter, (Vineland)
• Domincan Sisters of Caldwell
• Essex Pax Christi
• Essex Ethical Society Social Action Committee
• Episcopal Diocese of Newark
• Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey (Trenton)
• Equal Justice, USA
• Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County (Teaneck)
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, NJ Synod
• Federation of Dominican Sisters USA
• Felician College Pax Christi (Lodi)
• Felician Sisters of Lodi, New Jersey Province
• For Whom the Bells Toll (Oakhurst)
• Garden State CURE
• Gay Political Action and Support Network (Edison)
• General Baptist Convention of New Jersey
• Grace Lutheran Church (Mendham)
• Gray Panthers
• Greater Camden Unity Coalition
• Greater New Jersey Conference, The United Methodist Church (Ocean)
• Greater Princeton Interfaith Coalition against the Death Penalty
• Green Party, Bergen County
• Green Party, Cape May and Atlantic Counties
• Green Party of New Jersey
• Green Party of Rutgers University
• Interfaith Prison Ministry (Princeton)
• Journey of Hope?From Violence to Healing
• League of Women Voters of New Jersey (Trenton)
• Little Sisters of the Assumption (Walden)
• Living Arts Club (Westville)
• The Logos Foundation (Chatham)
• Loughlin and Latimer, Esqs. (Hackensack)
• Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministries (Trenton)
• Marianist Family Retreat Center, Cape May Point
• Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, Paterson
• Montclair Clergy Association
• The Moravian Church in America
• Morris County Pax Christi
• Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation (Mt. Laurel)
• Murder Victims Families for Human Rights
• National Organization for Women, New Jersey
• New Jersey State NAACP
• New Jersey Association of Black Psychologists
• New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (Trenton and Chatham)
• New Jersey Association on Correction (Trenton)
• New Jersey Catholic Conference (Trenton)
• New Jersey Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• New Jersey Council of Churches (Trenton)
• New Jersey Peace Action
• New Jersey Synod Peace and Justice Team
• New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty
• Office of Family Life/Respect Life, Diocese of Trenton
• Office of Pro-Life Activities, Diocese of Metuchen
• The Orthodox Church in America
• Pax Christi, Monmouth County
• Pax Christi, New Jersey
• Pax Christi, Southwest New Jersey
• Pax Christi, Seton Hall Prep
• Pax Christi St. Augustine Prep (Richland)
• Pedro's People (Cape May)
• People's Organization for Progress (Newark)
• Presbyterian Church, USA Synod of the Northeast
• Presbyterian Church, USA, Palisades Presbytery
• Priests for Life
• Princeton Coalition Against Capital Punishment
• Princeton Ethical Humanist Fellowship
• Princeton Interfaith Coalition
• Princeton Prison Project
• Prison Ministry, Trinity Church (Princeton)
• Prisoners Self Help Legal Clinic (Newark)
• Pro-Life Office, Diocese of Camden
• Province of the Immaculate Conception, Paterson
• The Quixote Center
• Reformed Church in America, Synod of the Mid-Atlantics
• Religious Society of Friends, Barnegat Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Dover/Randolph Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Haddonfield Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Medford Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Middletown Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Montclair Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Moorestown Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Mount Holly Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, New Brunswick Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Plainfield Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Princeton Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Quakertown Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Rahway/Plainfield Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Dover Randolph Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Ridgewood Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Seaville Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Shrewsbury Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Somerset Hills Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Summit Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Trenton Meeting
• Religious Society of Friends, Woodbury Meeting
• Respect Life Office, Diocese of Paterson
• Ridgewood United Methodist Church
• The Riverside Club, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. (Bridgewater)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, Office of Jail and Prison Ministry
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson
• The Romero Center (Camden)
• Rutgers Ignite: Students Against the Death Penalty
• Rutgers Law School ACLU Chapter (Newark)
• Rutgers Law School National Lawyers' Guild
• Sisters for Christian Community of the Jubileee Network, New Jersey
• Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth (Convent Station)
• Sisters of Christian Community, Jubilee Network
• Sisters of Mercy (Keansburg)
• Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, New Jersey Regional Community Leadership Team (Watchung)
• Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell
• Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, Associate Members
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace at St. Michael's Villa
• St. Anthony of Padua Committee Against the Death Penalty (Red Bank)
• St. Barnabas Catholic Church Respect Life Committeee (Bayville)
• St. Joseph's Catholic Church Social Concerns Committee (Demarest)
• St. Mary's Renew Group (Colts Neck)
• St. Mary's Men's Ministry, (Colts Neck)
• St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church (Princeton)
• St. Peter Claver Church Parishioners for Peace and Justice (Montclair)
• St. Peter's College Pax Christi (Jersey City)
• St. Peter's Prep Pax Christi (Jersey City)
• Stockton College Peace Action
• Students for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Rutgers Law School (Newark)
• Trenton Peace Action
• Union/Somerset/Middlesex County Pax Christi
• Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly
• United Church of Christ, Central Atlantic Conference (New Jersey)
• United Church of Christ, New Jersey Association
• United Methodist Church, New Jersey Area Task Force to Abolish the Death Penalty (Red Bank)
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Northern New Jersey Chapter
• Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring (Elizabeth)

Partial list of newspapers that have editorialized against the death penalty:

• The Press of Atlantic City
• Asbury Park Press
• Courier-News
• The Daily Record (Morris County)
• Home News Tribune
• Montclair Times
• The New Jersey Law Journal
• New York Times
• Ocean County Observer
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• The Record (Bergen County)
• The Star Ledger
• Trenton Times
• Catholic Advocate (Newark)
• The Beacon (Paterson)
• Catholic Spirit (Metuchen)
• The Monitor (Trenton)
• Camden Star Herald (Camden)