offenders) had their sentences commuted to life without parole. Executions in New Jersey, 1900-1963 A complete list of 15,269 executions in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in the 1970s was compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla, and was made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. See also Capital punishment in New Jersey Capital punishment in the United States References New Jersey law Lists of people executed in the United States New Jersey-related lists