New Jersey State Prison using the new Electric Chair, built by Carl Adams of Trenton, in the shops of his Adams Electric Company. The last such electrocution took place in 1963. In 1979 the Death House (8 Wing), along with the old Hospital wing were demolished to make way for a new Gymnasium. Ground was broken for the contemporary facility in 1979, and it was completed in 1982. No additions have been made since that time. Previously the death row for men was the Capital Sentence Unit (CSU) in the New Jersey State Prison. This unit was first established in 1907. The same prison
Law of New Jersey Law of New Jersey The law of New Jersey consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, case law, and local law. The Constitution of New Jersey is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the New Jersey Legislature, published in the "Laws of New Jersey", and codified in the "New Jersey Statutes". State agency regulations (sometimes called administrative law) are published in the "New Jersey Register" and codified in the "New Jersey Administrative Code". New Jersey's legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court,