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In Connecticut

By Steve Hall

"Conn. lawmakers take up death penalty repeal bill,"is the updated AP report via Comcast's NECN. Connecticut lawmakers are once again considering whether to repeal the state's death penalty.The General Assembly's Judiciary Committee was holding a public hearing Monday on legislation that would replace capital punishment with life in prison without the possibility of release for certain murders.The proposal would affect only those crimes committed on or after the new legislation would become law. However, both the state's chief prosecutor and chief public defender agreed it would likely affect those currently on Connecticut's death row because a repeal would unfairly create two classes of people ? one subject to the death penalty, the other not...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).