>> a police union spokesman says the detective who was beaten chose not to shoot at dennard cunningham because he says he didn't want to be the next cop accused of killing an unarmed man. in another story, the death penalty in connecticut has been outlawed. the state supreme court declared it unconstitutional and now 11 convicts who were on death row in that state are no longer. they've been spared. the governor abolished capital punishment in 2012 but inmates already on death row when the law passed were not spared. they were considered exempt and could still be in line for execution. among them, two now infamous names, steven hayes and joshua komisarjevsky. they both entered the home of dr. petitt in connecticut then forced his wife general iffer to go to a bank and take out $15,000. they brought her home and raped her, strangled her, killed her