Connecticut state attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to revisit the 2012 repeal on death penalty as inapplicable to those who had been in death row at that time. Their arguments focus on 11 inmates convicted during the repeal and whose legal status remains ambiguous up to now.
Connecticut state police are looking for the driver of a car that struck a parked state police cruiser while avoiding a DUI checkpoint on Saturday night. The state police is requesting for any information on the driver.
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld parts of New York and Connecticut gun control laws banning semiautomatic assault rifles and large-capacity magazines, ruling the measures passed after a 2012 school massacre did not violate the Constitution.
Connecticut prosecutors asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its recent decision on a narrow vote to end the state's death penalty, a clerk for the state Supreme Court said.
