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A judge in 17th century Connecticut ruled on the thorniest of problems. Some of these included ruling on a piglet’s paternity, who was to blame for faulty…
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The Connecticut Supreme Court has rejected a request by state prosecutors to reconsider its landmark decision that eliminated the death penalty.Justices…
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The state's top prosecutor wants the Connecticut Supreme Court to reconsider its recent landmark decision to completely eliminate the death penalty in the…
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Last week, State Comptroller Kevin Lembo’s office unveiled a plan to end a decades-old backlog of state pension audits. This hour, Comptroller Lembo joins…
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Kevan Fagan, 23, told WBUR he would likely have changed his vote had he been aware of the Richard family's opposition to the death penalty. He is now the first juror to agree to be named, have his picture taken and talk about the trial.
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Last week, the state Supreme Court issued its ruling on capital punishment and completely repealed it - including for those already on death row. This…
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Connecticut's Supreme Court has ruled the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. WNPR spoke to the public defender who represented one of the state's…
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The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of a full repeal of the state's death penalty on Thursday.The decision comes more than three years after a…
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Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted in the 1985 murders of two fast-food employees based almost exclusively on ballistics evidence that has since been deemed unreliable.
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Charles Frederick Warner's execution had been postponed while Oklahoma revamped its drug combination and procedures in the wake of a botched execution in April.