In a challenge to the state Supreme Court this week, death penalty opponents argue, among other things, that retroactive application of capital punishment would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. They say executing a man convicted of murder in 2005 would be a violation of the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
April 19, 2013 at 04:28 AM
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It was around this time last year that lawmakers decided to repeal the death penalty in Connecticut.
Legislators were careful, however, to word the statute in such a way as to ensure the prior convicted members of death row like the Cheshire home invasion killers- Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were still subject to capital punishment.
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