Many of the Family members for repeal stayed for the entire House and Senate votes, in this photos are Dr. Gail Canzano, Sr. Mary Healy, Nancy Everett, and Elizabeth Brancato.

Anne Stone, Dawn Mancarella, and Jane Caron all lost family members to murder and viewed the 10 hour long floor vote in the House of Representatives.

New Haven Mayor DeStefano and Victoria Coward (regular contributor to this blog) at a press conference calling for repeal in New Haven 4/10/12. They were joined by police chief Dean Esserman who said as a Chief and former prosecutor that repeal was "long overdue".