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"Connecticut Wants Liquor, Pot and Death Penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this Wall Street Journal piece reporting on a new public opion poll from Connecticut.  Here are some of the notable specifics: Booze on Sundays, decriminalization of pot and the death penalty are among a number of things Connecticut voters are hoping new Gov. Dannel Malloy will push for this term, according to a survey. More than two-thirds of Connecticut voters support the death penalty, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.  At 68%, support for the death penalty has inched up in every Quinnipiac survey since the state was rocked with a triple murder in 2007 that took the lives of the wife and two daughters of a wealthy physician in the sleepy suburb of Cheshire, Conn. Only 59% of state voters supported the death penalty in a 2005 Quinnipiac poll...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 10, 2011 (boomark / email).