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Connecticut legislature sends death penalty repeal bill to Governor Rell

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article reports on interesting early-morning death penalty reform developments in Connecticut: The Connecticut Senate voted to abolish the death penalty early Friday morning after a marathon debate, narrowly approving a bill that would make life imprisonment without possibility of release the state?s highest criminal punishment. The Senate approved the death penalty bill, 19-17, shortly after 4 a.m., after nearly 11 hours of debate. The same measure had previously passed in the House of Representatives, and proceeds to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who has appeared likely to veto the bill. If signed into law, the bill would make Connecticut the 16th American state without an active death penalty statute.... After the vote, Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, the bill?s chief proponent and the co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sounded tired but jubilant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).