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Conn. Court: Death Penalty Still Gone

NOT BUDGING

Declared the state's death penalty unconstitutional.

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Reuters

The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a ruling on Thursday declaring that its death penalty is unconstitutional and abolishing capital punishment in the state. The court came to a 5-2 decision which overturned death sentences imposed on a man named Russell Peeler Jr. who had been on death row for ordering the 1999 killings of a woman and her son in Bridgeport.

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