New Jersey State Prison housed the death chamber, and the first death by electrocution occurred on December 11, 1907. In 1999 death row inmate Robert "Mudman" Simon, who was convicted of killing a police officer, died during a fight. The lethal injection chamber at the prison was never used, and the New Jersey Governor repealed the death penalty in December 2007. Therefore, the final execution to take place at the prison was a January 22, 1963 electrocution. The former lethal injection room now serves as an office. New Jersey State Prison The New Jersey State Prison (NJSP), formerly known as Trenton State Prison, is
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce in New Jersey. The guests board a chartered Amtrak train that leaves from Penn Station in Newark and then stops at various stations across New Jersey, as well as stops in Philadelphia and Wilmington. After the train arrives in the nation’s capital, guests have been joined by governors, state legislators, New Jersey’s Congressional delegation and other prominent business and political leaders from the Garden State for the annual Congressional Dinner. The Walk to Washington obtained its name when guests realized that few sit on the train; they literally walk up and down the train the whole trip to Washington. New