The Connecticut Supreme Court has rejected a request by the state’s top prosecutor to reconsider its decision to completely eliminate the death penalty in the state.
The legislature in 2012 repealed the death penalty for future murder cases, but kept it for those already on death row. In August, the Supreme Court found the retroactive application of the death penalty unconstitutional, meaning the 11 men on death row no longer faced execution.
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