[7] On May 22, 2009, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a bill that would abolish capital punishment, albeit it would not retroactively apply to the eleven current Connecticut death row inmates or those convicted of capital crimes committed before the repeal went into effect.
[8] On April 11, 2012, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal capital punishment for future cases (leaving past death sentences in place).
[10] In 2015 the state Supreme Court ruled that applying capital punishment only for past cases was unconstitutional, definitively ending it in Connecticut.
Survivor Dr. Petit condemned the state's decision to abolish capital punishment and spare the two criminals.
The only person to be executed since 1960 has been the serial killer and rapist Michael Bruce Ross on May 13, 2005, for the kidnapping, rapes and murders of Robin Stavinsky, April Brunais, Wendy Baribeault, and Leslie Shelley.
[19] The York Correctional Institution housed all female prisoners in the state, but no women were on death row.