Connecticut’s death row currently consists of nine men -– four black, three white and two Hispanic. The relatively even racial breakdown seems to offer little evidence that there is bias in the way Connecticut hands out the death penalty.
But a debate on that topic has been raging under the public’s radar. “This issue has always sort of been the dirty little secret that’s been out there for a while,” said New Haven defense attorney Lori Welch-Rubin.
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