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Opinion Roundup

By Steve Hall

As a high profile capital trial gets underway today in Connecticut, the Danbury News Times on Saturday carried the editorial, "Abolish death penalty."The jury trial set to begin Monday for one of two men charged in the horrific murder of a Cheshire woman and her two daughters in 2007 will raise the debate, once again, about Connecticut's death penalty.Such a heinous, heart-wrenching, cold-blooded crime makes it difficult to defend abolishing capital punishment in the state.But that is the right thing to do. We steadfastly support the abolition of capital punishment in Connecticut.Principles are not based on circumstances or particular cases. Principles are based on right and wrong, and the death penalty is wrong.Defense lawyers for Steven Hayes, the 47-year-old convict charged with killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, tried in July to get Judge Jon C...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).