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CONNECTICUT (USA): HOUSE VOTES TO REPEAL STATE'S DEATH PENALTY
April 10, 2012: The Connecticut House of Representatives will be voting on the death penalty repeal bill tomorrow, Wednesday 11, a week after the bill passed in the state's Senate.
Doug Whiting, spokesman for House Speaker Rep. Christopher Donovan of Meriden, told the Associated Press today that the House will take up the bill mid-afternoon Wednesday.
The proposed bill would abolish the death penalty for all future cases, but would not directly affect the sentences of current 11 inmates on Connecticut's death row.
If passed in the House, the bill would go to Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has said he would sign it into law. (Source: Associated Press, 10/04/2012)
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