[JURIST] Following up on a story reported yesterday in JURIST's Paper Chase, the New York State Assembly Codes Committee [official website] Tuesday defeated a bill to reinstate New York's death penalty by a vote of 11-7. The legislation, supported by Governor George Pataki [official website], is now effectively defeated for this year. The vote came after five days of public testimony on the flaws and inefficiencies in the death penalty. "New Yorkers have expressed today what the rest of us across the country are continuing to learn – that our nation's death penalty system is broken," said Shari Silberstein, Co-Director of the Quixote Center [official website], a national organization supporting a moratorium on executions while questions of fairness are studied and addressed. AP has more.