Connecticut 2011 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00138 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/13/2011

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 138
January Session, 2011  LCO No. 400
Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Introduced by:
SEN. MEYER, 12th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 138 

January Session, 2011

LCO No. 400

Referred to Committee on Judiciary 

Introduced by:

SEN. MEYER, 12th Dist.

AN ACT REPEALING THE DEATH PENALTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to eliminate the death penalty as an authorized sentence and make life imprisonment without the possibility of parole the maximum sentence.

Statement of Purpose: 

To repeal the death penalty which is not workable or effective.