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"Legislative Committee Votes To Abolish Death Penalty," is Jon Lender's report for the Hartford Courant.A bill to abolish the death penalty won approval from the legislature's judiciary committee Tuesday night ? with proponents saying that Connecticut's capital punishment law is unworkable and too costly to taxpayers, that new DNA testing has exonerated convicted death-row inmates across the country and that when the state kills someone it dehumanizes society. The committee voted 24-13 to send the bill to the floor of the House. It would make life imprisonment without the possibility of release the maximum penalty for a capital felony. The action was taken under the shadow of a possible gubernatorial veto ? which was implied, although not promised, in a pronouncement from Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).