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The Connecticut Hearing

By Steve Hall

AP coverage of yesterday's Connecticut legislative hearing is, "Lawmakers hear death penalty arguments," by Susan Haigh.  It's via the Wilton Villager. If Connecticut abolishes the death penalty for future convictions, it doesn't necessarily mean the 10 men currently on death row will still be executed, state lawmakers were warned Monday. Susan Storey, the state's chief public defender, told members of the General Assembly's Judiciary Com-mittee she would be ethically obligated to pursue litigation on behalf of those men should state legislators decide to abolish the death penalty for crimes committed when or after the new legislation takes effect. Meanwhile, Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane also questioned whether those now on death row, including Steven Hayes, who was recently convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in Cheshire home invasion in 2007, would still face execution if the state created two classes of people -- one subject to capital punishment and one not...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).