26 April 2018 :

In a brief hearing Wednesday, Hartford Superior Court Judge Edward J. Mullarkey resentenced Jessie Campbell III (38, Black) to life in prison without the possibility of release because the state has since abolished the death penalty. Judge Mullarkey sentenced Campbell to death on Aug. 16, 2007 (see) for the Aug. 26, 2000, murder of Desiree Privette, 18, and her friend and Campbell’s estranged girlfriend, LaTaysha Logan, 20. A third woman, Privette's aunt, Carolyn Privette, was wounded but survived the shooting. In 2015 and in 2016, the Supreme Court ruled that a 2012 state law abolishing capital punishment for future crimes must be applied to the men who still faced execution for earlier killings. Campbell is the sixth death-row prisoner to be resentenced following the two Connecticut Supreme Court's rulings declaring the state's death penalty unconstitutional. Five other prisoners who were on death row at the time of that decision have yet to be formally resentenced.