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Committee Takes Up Connecticut DP Issue

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That's the title of a report in today's Hartford Courant by Daniela Altimiri.  LINKThe legislature's judiciary committee this morning will revisit the question of whether Connecticut's death penalty be repaired, scrapped or left as is. In an informational hearing scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., the panel will review proposals by Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane that aim to address lengthy delays in implementing the death penalty law. Just one inmate has been executed in Connecticut in nearly 50 years -- serial killer Michael Ross in 2005, only after he wanted to die and waged a legal fight to do so. "The death penalty process is long, arduous and frustrating to the families of victims," said Rep. Lawlor, D- East Haven and chairman of the committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).