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Connecticut death row inmates

Inmates on Connecticut's death row:

NAME: Robert Breton

AGE: 58

CRIME: Breton was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of capital felony for the Dec. 13, 1987, beating and stabbing deaths of his 38-year-old ex-wife and their 16-year-old son in Waterbury.

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NAME: Sedrick "Ricky" Cobb

AGE: 43

CRIME: Cobb, a former delivery man from Naugatuck, was convicted of capital felony, kidnapping, murder, sexual assault and robbery in the Dec. 16, 1989, attack on 23-year-old Julia Ashe of Watertown.

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NAME: Robert Courchesne

AGE: 47

CRIME: Courchesne was convicted of capital felony by a three-judge panel in the Sept. 15, 1998, deaths of Demetris Rodgers and her baby. Rodgers was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed over a $410 drug debt. Her baby was delivered by emergency Caesarean section minutes after her death, but died 42 days later.

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NAME: Richard Reynolds

AGE: 36

CRIME: A Brooklyn, N.Y., crack dealer, Reynolds was convicted in the Dec. 18, 1992, murder of Waterbury police Officer Walter T. Williams.

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NAME: Daniel Webb

AGE: 42

CRIME: Webb was convicted of kidnap and murder for the 1989 slaying of Diane Gellenbeck, a 37-year-old Connecticut National Bank vice president.

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NAME: Eduardo Santiago

AGE: 25

CRIME: Santiago was convicted on capital felony and murder charges after shooting Joseph Niwinksi in the left temple as he slept in his apartment. Prosecutors say he carried out the murder-for-hire scheme in exchange for a broken snowmobile.

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NAME: Todd Rizzo

AGE: 26

CRIME: Rizzo confessed to the 1997 murder of 13-year-old Stanley Edwards. He lured Edwards into his backyard under the guise of hunting snakes and then hit him 13 times with a 3-pound sledgehammer.

(Source: Connecticut Department of Correction)

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