The legislature's decision in April to Connecticut's death penalty is making new waves in the state's judicial circles, with one death row inmate arguing he should now not be put to death.
The was intended only for newly convicted capital felony inmates, not the 11 death row inmates currently incarcerated in Connecticut.
But one death row inmate has filed an appeal of his death penalty conviction, saying his sentence should not be carried out in light of the state's death penalty repeal, according to a Hartford Courant report.
The move by a defense attorney for one death row inmate raises the specter that all death row inmates, including the of the home invasion deaths of a Cheshire woman and her daughters, could file such appeals under the new law.
