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By Steve Hall

"Death penalty too costly, doesn?t deter murderers," is the editorial in Connecticut's Norwich Bulletin.There were 135 murders committed in Connecticut in 2006, the highest amount reported since 1998, which also had 135 murders. But the 2006 figure is the more important one. That was the year after the state executed serial killer Michael Ross. His execution apparently did little to deter others from taking lives. In fact, the state has recorded more murders in the four years after Ross? execution than in the four years leading up to it. From 2001 through 2004, 411 murders were committed compared to 478 from 2006 through 2009. Of the 10 inmates now on Connecticut?s death row, three were sentenced to death after Ross? execution ? Leslie Campbell III and Russell Peeler, both in 2007, and Lazale Ashby in 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).