"On August 26, 1963 Sgt. Peter Voto and P.O. Gary Tedesco responded to the Angel Lounge on Route 46 in Lodi to a report of a disturbance. Upon their arrival to the location, Sgt Voto entered the establishment and PO Tedesco remained in the patrol car since he was a probationary officer and had not been carrying a gun at the time. Thomas Trantino and Frank Falco ambushed Sgt Voto upon entering the bar. When Sgt Voto did not return outside, PO Tedesco went inside to check on his partner and was also ambushed by the subjects. Both of these murderers were inside the tavern celebrating their recent heist throughout the area. They tortured and eventually shot both officers execution style inside the bar and left them for dead. Frank Falco was later shot and killed by New York Police Officers in Manhattan after resisting arrest. Thomas Trantino later turned himself in to authorities and was sentenced to the death penalty. New Jersey later repealed the death penalty and his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Numerous times this murderer made attempts to get parole, which were met by stiff opposition from law enforcement, family and politicians. Ultimately this heinous criminal was paroled and released in 1999 after serving 30+ years behind bars against stiff opposition of the law enforcement community."
These animals were sentenced to death and death it should have been. Then it was life in prison without parole and now we see where that gets us. EXECUTION IS THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT SOCIETY.
This retro-active penalty change has always puzzled me. If a murderer is sentenced to life in a state that at that time has no death penalty and then a few years later, re-institutes it, does the prisoner get executed? Hmmmm? If not, why not?