HB 6578 - Death Penalty Replacement - Connecticut Key Vote
Peter Tercyak voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Vetoed
- June 5, 2009
- House Bill Passed
- May 13, 2009
- Introduced
- Feb. 25, 2009
Related Issues
Stage Details
Title: Death Penalty Replacement
Title: Death Penalty Replacement
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that eliminates the death penalty as an option for sentencing and maintains life imprisonment without the possibility of release.
Highlights:
-Changes the term capital felony to murder with special circumstances (Sec. 1). -Mandates that crimes considered to be murder with special circumstances will have the penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of release and eliminates the death penalty (Sec. 2). -Any capital felony committed prior to the effective date of this measure is subject to death penalty (Sec. 5a).
Title: Death Penalty Replacement
Committee Sponsors
- Joint Committee on Judiciary (Sponsor)
- Jason W. Bartlett (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Beth Bye (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Juan R. Candelaria (CT - D)
- Charles 'Don' Clemons Jr. (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mae M. Flexer (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Minnie Gonzalez (CT - D)
- Ernest Hewett (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Maryanne 'Annie' Hornish (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Martin M. Looney (CT - D)
- Douglas McCrory (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patricia Billie Miller (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bruce V. Morris (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jason Rojas (CT - D)
- Peter A. Tercyak (CT - D)
- Toni Edmonds Walker (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary A. Winfield (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Elissa T. Wright (CT - D) (Out Of Office)