(AP) — Two former Connecticut death-row inmates convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion have been transferred to separate maximum-security facilities in Pennsylvania.
Both were recently resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled last year that the death penalty violated the state constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and was out of step with contemporary standards of decency.
A 2012 law passed by Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democrat-controlled legislature abolished the death penalty for future cases, but left the 11 men already convicted of capital crimes on death row after a debate that focused on the Cheshire home invasion.
