The justices initially outlawed capital punishment for all in an August 2015 ruling, but the decision was appealed by prosecutors.Ĭheshire home invasion killer Steven Hayes was resentenced last week in New Haven Superior Court to six consecutive life sentences without the chance for parole. Peeler, 44, will be the second of Connecticut’s 11 formerly condemned prisoners to be resentenced since last month’s Supreme Court ruling that spared their lives.
BRIDGEPORT - Russell Peeler Jr., sent to death row for ordering the 1999 killings of Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old son Leroy “B.J.” Brown in Bridgeport, is scheduled to be resentenced in Superior Court to life in prison without the possibility of release on July 1, attorneys and court officials said Wednesday.