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Will the Connecticut Senate Repeal?

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The Greenwich Time reports, "State senate might pass death penalty bill," by Bryan Lockhart.Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams Jr. said Monday he is close to having enough votes in the 36-member chamber to pass a bill this week replacing the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. "I think there is a chance that we might have 19 votes in the Senate, which would be historic. We would have the numbers to pass it," said Williams, D-Brooklyn. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday 90 to 56 in favor of legislation abolishing executions of convicted criminals in Connecticut -- the first time any chamber of the General Assembly had passed the bill. The Senate is in session today, Wednesday and Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).