by Johnna Kaplan FALL 2016 In 2015, when Connecticut abolished the death penalty—embedded in its laws since the 17th century—University of Connecticut history professor Lawrence Goodheart’s The Solemn Sentence of Death: Capital Punishment in […]
By Lawrence J. DeNardis (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Beginning with the Fundamental Orders of 1639, Connecticut never lost or surrendered her charter of liberties. A state constitutional revision in 1818 made some substantive […]