Gov. M. Jodi Rell responded breathlessly last week to Connecticut’s latest criminal atrocity, the New Britain home invasion in which one woman was abducted and murdered and another gravely injured. But the governor offered little more than impotent rage.
The governor renewed her call for a “three strikes” law, to require life imprisonment upon conviction of a third violent felony. But news reporters noticed that such a law would not have applied to the defendant in the New Britain atrocity any more than it would have applied to the defendants in the similar atrocity last July in Cheshire.
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