News From Connecticut
Connecticut's death penalty hearings have yet to happen with less than a week before first execution in 45 years. Read this Associated Press article from the The Boston Globe.
HARTFORD -- A two-year-old order by the state Supreme Court for hearings to determine if Connecticut's death penalty is biased stands unfulfilled less than a week before New England's first scheduled execution in 45 years.The court appointed former chief justice Robert J. Callahan in 2003 to arrange hearings on assertions that there is racial and geographic discrimination in the use of the death penalty. However, no hearings have been scheduled and a new judge has been ordered to assist after Callahan, 74, asked to be relieved because of health issues.
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