Editing Connecticut (section)

===Voting===

In July 2009, the Connecticut legislature overrode a veto by Governor [[M. Jodi Rell]] to pass [[SustiNet]], the first significant public-option health care reform legislation in the nation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Health Reform Alive: Legislature Overrides Rell Veto Of Sustinet Care Plan, Six Other Bills |work=Hartford Courant |date=July 21, 2009 |first=Christopher |last=Keating |url=http://www.aarp.org/states/ct/advocacy/articles/in_historic_vote_legislature_overrides_sustinet_veto.html |access-date=September 18, 2009 |archive-date=August 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815011720/http://www.aarp.org/states/ct/advocacy/articles/in_historic_vote_legislature_overrides_sustinet_veto.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2012, both houses of the Connecticut state legislature passed a bill (20 to 16 and 86 to 62) that abolished [[Capital punishment in the United States|capital punishment]] for all future crimes, while 11 inmates who were waiting on the [[death row]] at the time could still be executed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/connecticut-governor-signs-bill-to-repeal-death-penalty/ |title=Connecticut governor signs bill to repeal death penalty |date=April 25, 2012 |work=FOX News |access-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514155148/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/connecticut-governor-signs-bill-to-repeal-death-penalty |url-status=live }}</ref>