Victims' Family Members Want Capital Punishment Repealed

The families of Connecticut murder victims gathered to urge lawmakers to repeal the death penalty. (Jenn Bernstein, Fox CT)

Victims' Family Members Want Capital Punishment Repealed

— More than two dozen families of murder victims came to the state Capitol complex Wednesday to make a case that the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

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The lawyers for the second defendant in the 2007 Cheshire home-invasion case are asking the court to sequester the jury during the trial and for permission to show prospective jurors crime-scene...

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