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| Prison guards train for possibility of execution |
| By journalinquirer.com - Ed Jacovino |
| Published: 03/06/2012 |
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HARTFORD — Even as state lawmakers debate whether to abolish the death penalty, prison guards have been training for an execution. Correction Commissioner Leo C. Arnone said the training began after he heard that a Death Row inmate might waive his appeals. So he asked Correction Department officials what they would do if they had to execute one of the state’s 11 Death Row inmates. They told him they didn’t know, he said. The state’s last execution occurred seven years ago in 2005, when serial killer Michael Ross waived his appeals and was put to death by lethal injection. Only two members of the team involved in that execution still are working for the state, Arnone said. It’s unclear whether any Correction Department employees continued training for executions after the Ross execution. Death Row is at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers. The execution chambers are at the adjacent Osborn Correctional Institution. Arnone said he’s looking to federal guidelines and studying execution practices in other states. At least one state employee traveled to Texas last year to witness an execution there. Texas employs a similar method to Connecticut’s lethal injection, Arnone said. Correction Department spokesman Brian Garnett said Monday that the training is part of keeping up with state rules. Read More. |
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