WETHERSFIELD — Conditions on Connecticut’s death row remain unchanged more than four months after the Connecticut Supreme Court found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional.
But Correction Commissioner Scott Semple said he is working to change a policy that requires those inmates to be in restraints any time they leave their cells.
Defense attorneys predicted after the August ruling that the 11 inmates currently housed on death row at Northern Correctional Institution would be reclassified and join the general prison population.
But prosecutors are hoping to overturn the Supreme Court ruling when they argue another death-penalty appeal in January.
Semple says until the legal issues are resolved, the inmates will remain where they are.
