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Connecticut Senate Approves Death Penalty Repeal

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"Death Penalty Abolition Gets Final Legislative Approval In Senate," is by Jon Lender and Daniela Altimari for the Hartford Courant.In a historic action -- which may be rendered short-lived by a gubernatorial veto -- the state Senate narrowly gave final legislative approval early Friday to a bill that would abolish the death penalty in Connecticut. The 19-17 Senate vote came at 4:11 a.m., after nearly 11 hours of impassioned debate in the Senate chamber, and eight days after the state House of Representatives' approval of the bill by a 90-56 vote. Now the question is whether the bill will ever become law, because Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell has steadfastly said that she supports capital punishment, and repeated that Thursday. Asked at the Capitol whether she would veto the death penalty abolition bill, Rell said: "I haven't seen it, but you know how I feel about the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).