Connecticut House Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
Source: NYT
HARTFORD — After more than nine hours of debate, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 86 to 62 on Wednesday night to repeal the state’s death penalty, following a similar vote in the State Senate last week. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, has said he will sign the bill, which would make Connecticut the 17th state — the 5th in five years — to abolish capital punishment.
Mr. Malloy’s signature will leave New Hampshire and Pennsylvania as the only states in the Northeast that still have the death penalty. New Jersey repealed it in 2007. New York’s statute was ruled unconstitutional by the state’s highest court in 2004, and lawmakers have not moved to fix the law.
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K and R 
Let's hope that many other states follow suit in the near future. 
America's love affair with state-sponsored revenge killing is a shameful throwback to Old Testament barbarism.
Legislators in the US state of Connecticut have voted to repeal the death penalty for all future cases, after a 10-hour floor debate.
Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy says he will sign the bill, making his state the 17th to end capital punishment.
As expected, state lawmakers voted 86 to 62 for the bill on Wednesday.
Captial punishment repeal proposals are pending in several other states including Kansas and Kentucky.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17692716
From CTPost.com:
Sounds like the Democrats voted for the repeal by 80-19, while republicans voted to retain the death penalty by 44-8. Nothing very surprising in those numbers.
