I Strongly Oppose This Court Decision
August 13, 2015
Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled 4-3 today that inmates facing the possibility of execution in the state cannot be put to death.
As someone who is FOR the death penalty, I strongly oppose this decision.
A single court has taken it upon itself to flat out reject a state law that was passed through the rigorous legislative process.
I’d like to share with you the words of Justice Espinosa, from her dissenting opinion:
"The majority’s decision ignores the will of the people of Connecticut by abolishing the death penalty in a violation of the separation of powers, and essentially passes an amendment to Public Act 12-5 by a vote of four, abolishing that portion of the act that preserved the penalty of death for the eleven men currently on death row.
"This type of decision making is reminiscent of the same type of judicial activism that I spoke out against in my dissent in Lapointe v. Commissioner of Correction, and, just as in that decision, today’s majority decision ‘reflects a complete misunderstanding of the proper role that this court should play within the rule of law.’
"This court has developed an apparent practice of exceeding the constitutional bounds of its power in order to impose its personal notion of what justice and fairness require."