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Best of 2021: Connecticut's sole supermax prison is closing. What comes next for the men who used to be on death row?

When CT lawmakers abolished the death penalty, they also placed special circumstances on the former death row inmates held at Northern.

Connecticut's sole supermax prison is closing. What comes next for the men who used to be on death row?

Connecticut's sole supermax prison is closing. What comes next for the men who used to be on death row?

In March 2012, six state senators and Gov. Dannel Malloy’s criminal justice point person, Michael Lawlor, visited two prisons: Northern Correctional Institution, a “supermax” prison where the men on death row were incarcerated, and MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, the largest maximum security prison in New England. The goal: to convince lawmakers on the fence all Democrats   to vote to repeal the death penalty. The legislature had already sent a bill to end capital punishment to the governor’s desk in 2009, but it was vetoed by then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Fast forward three years, however, and the math had changed. Several lawmakers were reconsidering their earlier votes, hesitant to go against the wishes of Dr. William Petit, whose wife and two daughters were murdered at their Cheshire home just a few years earlier, in 2007.

Connecticut's Sole Supermax Prison Is Closing. What's Next For Those Who Used To Be On Death Row?