Death Penalty Foes Gear Up?

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By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo Naugatuck Valley Bureau Chief mtuccitto@nhregister.com

State lawmakers who oppose the death penalty will try again in the coming legislative session to get a bill passed that would abolish it, with debates likely to coincide with the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, who potentially faces the death penalty in connection with the deadly 2007 Cheshire home invasion.

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Death Penalty Foes Gear Up?

Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, D-New Haven, now vice chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he reintroduced the bill shortly after the November election.

An earlier bill that would have abolished the state's death penalty, which had the same lan...

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