Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05271 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/05/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5271
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 39
 *00039*
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. SAMPSON, 80th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5271 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 39

*00039*

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY 

Introduced by:

REP. SAMPSON, 80th Dist.

AN ACT RESTORING THE DEATH PENALTY.

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

That chapter 952 of the general statutes be amended to restore the crime of capital felony, punishable by death, for any person convicted under the provisions of section 53a-54b of the general statutes for a murder committed on or after the effective date.

Statement of Purpose: 

To restore the death penalty in Connecticut.