USA - Connecticut. The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-13 to approve a bill to abolish the death penalty.

The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-13 to approve a bill to abolish the death penalty. It would make life imprisonment without the possibility of release the maximum penalty for a capital felony. The vote sends the bill to the floor of the House. The action was taken under the shadow of a possible gubernatorial veto — which was implied, although not promised, in a pronouncement from Gov. M. Jodi Rell's press secretary, Chris Cooper: "The governor has said many times that for certain heinous crimes the death penalty is appropriate." The last execution in Connecticut was that of Michael Ross on May 13, 2005.