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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the state's death penalty repeal bill into law today, but the new law will not affect the 11 convicted killers already on death row including the two men who killed the wife and daughters of Dr. William Petit. 
  
 The bill signing made Connecticut the 17th state to abolish the death penalty. 
  
 "This afternoon I signed legislation that will, effective today, replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of release as the highest form of legal punishment in Connecticut," Malloy said in a statement released after he signed the bill behind closed doors. 
  
 "It is a moment for sober reflection, not celebration," he wrote. 
  
 The new law replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. It abolished the death penalty for future cases, but it does not affect sentences for the 11 inmate's currently on death row in the state. 
  
 An isolated and vacant cell block at the Osborn prison in Somers is expected to be used for the death row inmates who are now on death row, according to ABC News' Hartford affiliate WTNH. The inmates will be kept isolated from the general prison population and will have tightly restricted privileges. 
  
 Malloy said he signed the bill because working as a prosecutor, he "learned firsthand that our system of justice is very imperfect" and that it was "subject to the fallibility of those who participate in it." 
  
 The second factor that led to his decision today was the "unworkability" of Connecticut's death penalty law. 
  
 The state has put to death two people in the past 52 years and both had volunteered for it. He said that the state's residents pay for countless fruitless appeals as the cases receive publicity he did not believe they deserve. 
  
 "The 11 men currently on death row in Connecticut are far more likely to die of old age than they are to be put to death," he said. 
  
 Malloy also acknowledged that the campaign to abolish the death penalty was led by dozens of family members of murder victims, some of whom were present when he signed the bill. 
  
 Not all family members have been supportive of repealing the death penalty. 
  
 One of the strongest voices against repealing the death penalty has been Dr. William Petit Jr., the lone survivor of a 2007 Cheshire home invasion that resulted in the murders of his wife and two daughters. 
  
 The wife was raped and strangled, one of the daughters was molested and both girls were left tied to their beds as the house was set on fire. 
  
 The two men convicted of the crime, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, are currently on death row. 
  
 "There is no such thing as closure when your loved one is savagely taken from you," Petit -- along with his sister Johanna Petit Chapman -- wrote in a statement to the New Haven Register in March. "There can, however, be adequate and just punishment and that is the death penalty." ||||| (HARTFORD, Conn.)  Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment. 
  
 The Democrat signed the bill behind closed doors, without fanfare. An aide said Malloy was surrounded by lawmakers, clergy and family members of murder victims. 
  
 While he called it "an historic moment," Malloy said in a written statement that it was a moment "for sober reflection, not celebration." (MORE: Conn. Lawmakers OK Death Penalty Repeal) 
  
 The bill, which became effective immediately, was signed on the same day that a new Quinnipiac University Poll showed that 62 percent of registered voters in Connecticut still favor the death penalty for those convicted of murder. The same survey found 47 percent of voters disapprove of Malloy's handling of the issue, while 33 percent approve. "Many of us who have advocated for this position over the years have said there is a moral component to our opposition to the death penalty. For me, that is certainly the case," he said. "But that does not mean  nor should it mean  that we question the morality of those who favor capital punishment. I certainly don't." 
  
 Amnesty International USA praised Malloy for signing the bill. Connecticut joins 16 other states and the District of Columbia. "Lawmakers in Connecticut finally saw the death penalty for what it is  a barbaric and irreversible punishment that does nothing to stop crime nor its victims," said Suzanne Nossel, the organization's executive director, who credited the family members of murder victims for supporting the legislation and working to get the bill passed. (LIST: Five Historically Infamous Executions: Justice Served or Grave Mistake?) 
  
 A former prosecutor, Malloy said he used to support the death penalty but his position evolved over the years. "I learned firsthand that our system of justice is very imperfect," he said, adding how he saw people who were poorly served by their lawyers, wrongly accused or mistakenly identified, as well as discriminated against. "In bearing witness to those things, I came to believe that doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed," Malloy said. 
  
 Earlier this month, the Democratic-controlled General Assembly passed legislation repealing the death penalty for only future crimes and not the 11 men currently on Connecticut's death row. The legislation requires that people convicted under the new law would be subject to prison conditions similar to those now experienced by condemned inmates. 
  
 Opponents of the repeal legislation included Dr. William Petit Jr., the only survivor of a 2007 home invasion in which two paroled burglars killed his wife and two daughters. Last year, Petit successfully lobbied state senators to hold off on repeal legislation while one of the two killers was still facing a death penalty trial. (MORE: Witness Testimony and the Death Penalty: After Troy Davis, a Push for Eyewitness Reform) 
  
 In more than half a century, Connecticut has executed only one person  serial killer Michael Ross, who volunteered for the lethal injection in 2005. 
  
 The Quinnipiac Poll also showed that 51 percent of voters disapprove of the legislature's handling of the issue, compared to 29 percent who approve. Asked, however, about which type of punishment they prefer for convicted murderers  the death penalty or life in prison without chance of parole  registered voters were split, 46 percent to 46 percent. 
  
 The telephone survey of 1,745 voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. |||||

Life without the possibility of parole has replaced lethal injection as the harshest punishment Connecticut's courts can hand down. Gov. Dan Malloy signed a bill to repeal capital punishment, making the state the 17th to do so, and the fifth in the last five years, ABC reports. The new law will not affect the 11 killers already on death row in the state, including two men sentenced to death for murdering the wife and daughters of Dr. William Petit in a home invasion. Petit successfully lobbied lawmakers to delay repeal until both men had been sentenced. Connecticut has only executed one person since 1960. Malloy, a former prosecutor, said he used to support the death penalty, but his position changed as he observed injustices caused by flaws in the system, Time reports. "In bearing witness to those things, I came to believe that doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed," he said, calling repeal a "moment for sober reflection, not celebration." California may become the next state to abolish the death penalty if voters decide to do so in a ballot measure this November.