Connecticut
As of December 9, 2011, there are eleven inmates on death row in Connecticut. In 2012, the death penalty was abolished for future crimes in Connecticut; however, it was not retroactive, leaving 11 people on death row who could still be executed.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lazale Ashby | Rape and murder of his 21-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Garcia, in her Hartford apartment on December 2, 2002. The crime occurred four days after Ashby's 18th birthday. | March 28, 2008 | |
| Robert Breton | Two counts of murder and one count of capital felony for the December 13, 1987, beating and stabbing deaths of his 38-year-old ex-wife, JoAnn Breton, and their 16-year-old son, Robert Breton, Jr. | October 27, 1989 | Breton's original death sentence was overturned in 1995. He was sentenced again in 1998. |
| Jessie Campbell III | Murder, attempted murder, first-degree assault, and weapons violations for the August 26, 2000, shooting deaths in Hartford of 20-year-old LaTaysha Logan and 18-year-old Desiree Privette and the shooting of Privette's aunt, Carolyn Privette. | August 16, 2007 | |
| Sedrick "Ricky" Cobb | Rape and murder of 23-year-old Julia Ashe of Watertown, whom he kidnapped from a Waterbury department store parking lot on December 16, 1989. | September 24, 1991 | |
| Steven Hayes | Sentenced to death on all six possible death-penalty counts: killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela and Hayley in the course of a single action; killing a child under the age of 16; killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a kidnapping; killing Hayley in the course of a kidnapping; killing Michaela in the course of a kidnapping; and killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a sexual assault. | December 2, 2010 | |
| Joshua Komisarjevsky | Sentenced to death on all six possible death-penalty counts: killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela and Hayley in the course of a single action; killing a child under the age of 16; killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a kidnapping; killing Hayley in the course of a kidnapping; killing Michaela in the course of a kidnapping; and killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a sexual assault. | December 9, 2011 | |
| Russell Peeler, Jr. | Ordering his younger brother to kill Karen Clarke and her eight-year-old son, Leroy "B.J." Brown, Junior, in their Bridgeport duplex on January 8, 1999. The boy was expected to be the key witness against Peeler in the fatal shooting of Clarke's boyfriend. | December 10, 2007 | |
| Richard Reynolds | Murder of 34-year-old Waterbury Police Officer Walter T. Williams. | April 13, 1995 | |
| Todd Rizzo | The 1997 murder of 13-year-old Stanley Edwards of Waterbury. He lured Edwards into his backyard under the guise of hunting snakes and then hit him 13 times with a three-pound sledgehammer. | August 13, 1999 | The Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a new penalty hearing in Rizzo's case in 2003, but he was sentenced to death again in 2005. |
| Eduardo Santiago | Murder of Joseph Niwinski as he slept in his West Hartford apartment in December 2000. | January 31, 2005 | |
| Daniel Webb | Kidnapping and murder for the 1989 slaying in Hartford of Diane Gellenbeck, a 37-year-old Connecticut National Bank vice president. | September 12, 1991 | Prior to this, Webb already had an extensive criminal record including a 1983 robbery conviction, 1984 rape and kidnapping conviction, and an arrest in 1987 for rape. While out on bail after the 1987 arrest, he murdered Gellenbeck. |
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