House Votes to Repeal the Death Penalty

Senate Bill 208 cleared the House 86-62 vote.  Thank you to all who contacted their  legislators over the months.  Connecticut will join 16 other states and the District of Columbia, that have abolished capital punishment.  This bill replaces the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of release although it stipulates that the eleven men currently on death row in Connecticut will still face execution; capital punishment would be abolished only for those convicted of capital offenses in the future.