Legislative Committee Votes To Abolish Death Penalty

Courant.com - Connecticut News, Hartford Courant
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 9:00pm

A bill to abolish the death penalty won approval from the legislature's judiciary committee Tuesday night — with proponents saying that Connecticut's capital punishment law is unworkable and too costly to taxpayers, that new DNA testing has exonerated convicted death-row inmates across the country and that when the state kills someone it dehumanizes society.

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