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| Death Row Killer Steven Hayes Is Condemned to Life |
| By thedailybeast.com |
| Published: 09/08/2015 |
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“I know what people are going to ask,” Steven Hayes told me, “because I have those same questions.” When Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled on August 13 that the state could no longer impose the death penalty, calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment, “no longer serv[ing] any legitimate penological purpose,” I let out a deep breath I didn’t know I’d been holding. The release to the general prison population of the last 11 men awaiting death by lethal injection in Connecticut meant more to me than just the final end in my home state of an ineffectual and often unfairly imposed form of criminal justice and, to my eyes, a debasing way for civil society to punish even its worst offenders. The court also put an end to the absurdity of keeping the last 11 men on Death Row since the State General Assembly had ended capital punishment for all except those condemned to death before April 2012. Read More. |
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