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The Death Penalty and Connecticut Politics

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times reports, "Murder Trial Puts Death Penalty in Spotlight in Connecticut Campaigns."  It's written by Paul Bass. If Dannel P. Malloy?s gubernatorial campaign had the authority to set Connecticut?s court calendar, it probably would have scheduled the state?s most sensational murder trial for some other time. Like after Election Day. As it is, the trial of Steven J. Hayes , one of two men accused of rape and murder in a Cheshire home invasion, has been riveting the state all fall, increasing the majority of voters who tell pollsters they support the death penalty. Mr. Malloy is one of two Democrats in this fall?s two marquee races in Connecticut ? for governor and United States Senate ? who have called for the abolition of the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).