Connecticut May Have Figured Out a Way to Halt Executions in Texas

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The latest innovation in the campaign to end capital punishment has already paid dividends.

that would ban the sale of drugs or materials for use in an execution by any business in the state.this effort. As they argue: “This legislation is the logical and moral extension of our commitment to end capital punishment in our state. We do not believe in the death penalty for us here in Connecticut, and we will not support it anywhere else.”

At the time it abolished capital punishment, its new law only prevented any new death sentences from being imposed. It left 11 men on the state’s death row awaiting execution.by a 4–3 vote that applying the death penalty only for past cases was unconstitutional.

 

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