No death penalty for shooters! Connecticut Repeals Death Penalty

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Apparently the liberals didn't want Obama being sentenced to
death when they finally arrest him for the faked killings at
Sandy Hook.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the state's death penalty
repeal bill into law today, but the new law will not affect the
11 convicted killers already on death row including the two men
who killed the wife and daughters of Dr. William Petit.

The bill signing made Connecticut the 17th state to abolish the
death penalty.

"This afternoon I signed legislation that will, effective today,
replace the death penalty with life in prison without the
possibility of release as the highest form of legal punishment
in Connecticut," Malloy said in a statement released after he
signed the bill behind closed doors.

"It is a moment for sober reflection, not celebration," he wrote.

The new law replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life
without parole. It abolished the death penalty for future cases,
but it does not affect sentences for the 11 inmate's currently
on death row in the state.

An isolated and vacant cell block at the Osborn prison in Somers
is expected to be used for the death row inmates who are now on
death row, according to ABC News' Hartford affiliate WTNH. The
inmates will be kept isolated from the general prison population
and will have tightly restricted privileges.

Malloy said he signed the bill because working as a prosecutor,
he "learned firsthand that our system of justice is very
imperfect" and that it was "subject to the fallibility of those
who participate in it."

The second factor that led to his decision today was the
"unworkability" of Connecticut's death penalty law.

The state has put to death two people in the past 52 years and
both had volunteered for it. He said that the state's residents
pay for countless fruitless appeals as the cases receive
publicity he did not believe they deserve.

"The 11 men currently on death row in Connecticut are far more
likely to die of old age than they are to be put to death," he
said.

Malloy also acknowledged that the campaign to abolish the death
penalty was led by dozens of family members of murder victims,
some of whom were present when he signed the bill.

Not all family members have been supportive of repealing the
death penalty.

One of the strongest voices against repealing the death penalty
has been Dr. William Petit Jr., the lone survivor of a 2007
Cheshire home invasion that resulted in the murders of his wife
and two daughters.

The wife was raped and strangled, one of the daughters was
molested and both girls were left tied to their beds as the
house was set on fire.

The two men convicted of the crime, Joshua Komisarjevsky and
Steven Hayes, are currently on death row.

"There is no such thing as closure when your loved one is
savagely taken from you," Petit -- along with his sister Johanna
Petit Chapman -- wrote in a statement to the New Haven Register
in March. "There can, however, be adequate and just punishment
and that is the death penalty."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-repeals-death-penalty-
governor-dannel-malloy-signs/story?id=16212552#.UXt_OqK-q1U

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