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New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life
Loaded on May 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1999, page 19
Steven Beverly was convicted for the 1997 killing of a Bayside State Prison (New Jersey) guard. But two days later, November 11, 1998, the jury of seven men and five women said they were deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Under state law that means the judge could impose ...
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Racial Discrimination,
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
New Jersey.
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