This month, Connecticut abolished the death penalty. Let's take this moment to look at one of the crimes committed by two people whose lives have been saved by this decision. This crime was an open-and-shut case with no doubt of guilt. One day, two men decided to burglarize a house. They severely beat up the husband (so that he wasn't even recognizable) and tied him up. They also tied up his two daughters. One of the men forced the wife go to the bank and withdraw $15,000 from her line of credit...and he also bought two cans of gasoline. Upon returning home, the two men raped the wife and her 11-year-old daughter. As they were raping the girls upstairs, the husband downstairs escaped to seek help from a neighbor. The men strangled the raped wife to death, and with gasoline they had gotten earlier, doused the two still-living daughters and the house with gasoline and set the house on fire, incinerating the family (except for the escaped husband). Again, as I said, t