Connecticut Death Row Inmate Resentenced To Life In Prison

“I want to put on the record that I object (to the law requiring former death row inmates to be segregated from the general prison population),” Peeler said. Nearly 17 years after Peeler was convicted of ordering the slayings of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son, Leroy "B.J." Brown Jr. to protect his drug operation in the city, he became the second death row inmate to be resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. The resentencings were required after the state Supreme Court last year outlawed capital punishment even for those 11 inmates already on death row. After the Supreme Court ruling, the General Assembly passed a law that those death row inmates resentenced to life terms will continue to be held in more restrictive custody. [...] he suddenly found himself in the spotlight when he witnessed notorious drug dealer Russell Peeler Jr.