Protest Walk Launched Over Planned Execution
Death penalty opponents set off from Hartford on a five-day walk to protest the state’s plans to execute a serial killer who confessed to killing and raping eight young women in Connecticut and New York in the early 1980s.
About two dozen protesters began the 30-mile trip to the prison where Michael Bruce Ross is scheduled to be put to death Friday in what would be the first execution in New England in 45 years. Ross has said he wants to die.
Protesters plan to walk through Thursday night, stopping at the Capitol, churches and for vigils along the way.
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