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Connecticut Death Penalty Repeal Approved by Lawmakers     Under
the bill, courts will be able to impose a sentence of life in
prison without the possibility of parole in place of capital
punishment. Furthermore, felons given a life sentence would also
be put in the same rough prison conditions currently endured by
inmates on Death Row.  The House's decision to pass the bill
occurred after almost 10 hours of floor debate, the Associated
Press reports.  The death penalty was originally carried over
from English law during America's Colonial Era. Since then,
favor for and against capital punishment has ebbed and flow
throughout U.S. history.  Today, a majority of states have death
penalty laws in place, including California, Texas, Arizona, and
Florida.  States that have abolished the practice recently are
Illinois, New Jersey, and New Mexico. New York has also declared
its death pena