The "Constitution" State is reconsidering the death penalty. Based on the broad consensus in the legislature and the support from the governor, Connecticut will be the seventeenth state to abolish the death penalty.
State senator Edith Prague has voiced the same skepticism that plagues humanity and compromises our judgment, even in matters of murder:
"I cannot stand the thought of being responsible for someone being falsely accused and facing the death penalty."
This concern moved the first state in the Union, Michigan, to repeal their death penalty statutes as early as 1859. When the voters of that Great Lake state realized, too late, that an innocent man had been executed, they moved to put an end to the most final of consequences handed down by the state.
I commend the Connecticut leadership and legislature for reforming a practice which has become ineffective and immoral in the wake of better science and forensic evidence.
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