In a highly unusual habeas corpus proceeding, five death row inmates are arguing that Connecticut’s system of capital punishment is every bit as arbitrary and unfair as Georgia’s was in the years before 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia.
To comply with the convicts’ rights to confront witnesses against them, the five condemned men in yellow prison jumpsuits were seated in plastic chairs in a temporary courtroom within a high-security prison for the start of their hearing. With the convicts handcuffed and shackled to metal desks in leg irons and their lawyers shuffling papers nearby, the common room of Northern Correctional Institution in Storrs has become a makeshift courtroom for Rockville Superior Court Senior Judge Samuel Sferrazza.
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