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In a 6-1 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the state’s death penalty in its ruling on the Todd Rizzo case. Rizzo was found guilty of murdering a 13-year-old boy with a sledgehammer in 1997. He is on death row. Today, Connecticut’s high court upheld his death sentence.
Read: Conn. Supreme Court upholds state’s death [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | October 24, 2011
I don’t practice criminal law but I came upon a post in the Hartford Courant that you might find interesting. With the penalty phase of the Joshua Komisarjevsky trial set to begin, the death penalty is on the minds of an awful lot of people.
Read: In Connecticut, Executions Are Highly Rare Events
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Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | July 11, 2011
I received the following press release from Change.org and in light of the public’s reaction to the Casey Anthony verdict, I thought it made sense to pass it along:
MORE THAN ONE MILLION AMERICANS JOIN “CAYLEE’S LAW” CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, DC – In less than one week, more than one million Americans have joined an Oklahoma woman’s [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | October 18, 2010
The penalty phase of triple murderer Steven Hayes will begin today. On October 5th, the jury found Hayes guilty of 16 counts. Six of those counts are capital felonies that are punishable by death. Now those same jurors must decide if Hayes receives the death penalty.
Read: Defense Monday Begin Fight For [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | October 14, 2010
In the many months since the horrendous home invasion that took the life of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, much has been written about Connecticut’s death penalty. With the trial of defendant Steven Hayes in the forefront of the daily news, there aren’t many places one can go and not hear at least [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | June 21, 2010
Some things border on the ridiculous. Others are blatantly ridiculous. This story fits the latter category. I’ll just give you a brief synopsis … the link to the entire story appears below.
While on their honeymoon, the wife begins to exhibits signs of a stroke. She and her husband are both trained [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | May 25, 2010
I apologize for the silence these last 12 days but sometimes, real life gets in the way. I hope you’ll forgive me.
That said, I happened to tune in to Jim Vicevich’s “Sound Off Connecticut” show on WTIC this morning. I was driving and only had about 10 minutes to listen, but the topic [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | April 9, 2010
On October 21, 2009, I posted about Eric Williams, a guy who happened to wake up at 5:30, make a cup of coffee, and drink it in his living room … in the nude. A mother and her child picked that day to cut through his yard, spy his nakedness, and call the police [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | March 29, 2010
I’m sorry for the lack of posts last week but I was away on vacation. Other than the post on the Health Care Reform Bill being signed into law by President Obama, I was busy relaxing. So much for that.
Today, it was back to work. Do you have any idea [...]
Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. | March 12, 2010
After reading a Hartford Courant article about Dr. William Petit’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee on the death penalty, I got to wondering about the history of capital punishment. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the Code of King Hammaurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes as early as [...]
