Improvements in the judicial process
A way this judicial process has already been improved was by Joseph Krakora. In 1996 at the Seton Hall University School of Law Krakora published a paper about the death penalty. His thesis was based on the idea that a person who accidentally kills someone else should not be subjected to the death penalty. In this article the author tries to expand on the definition of what capital murder really is. He explains that someone who is only trying to cause physical harm to a person but ends up killing them, without ever having the intent to kill them, does not deserve capital punishment. He stated “Even with New Jersey’s expanded definition of capital murder, accomplices, with only two exceptions are not subject to the death penalty. …This creates the anomaly that, in New Jersey, an accomplice with intent to kill is not subject to the death penalty, but a principal intending only to cause serious bodily injury is subject to the death penalty”.