Editing Old Sparky (section)

==Connecticut==
Connecticut legislated [[lethal injection]] as its sole method of execution in 1995.<ref>[http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-R-0136.htm Connecticut Death Penalty Laws<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The last person executed by electrocution was [[Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky]] in May 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/10/18/news/doc4cbbd3b030403738863502.txt?viewmode=fullstory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910172240/http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/10/18/news/doc4cbbd3b030403738863502.txt?viewmode=fullstory|url-status=dead|title=Tales of North Haven’s ‘high crimes’ captivate- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=September 10, 2012}}</ref> Connecticut's "Old Sparky" has not been tested since it was moved from Wethersfield to the [[Northern Correctional Institution]] in [[Somers, Connecticut|Somers]] in 1962, and prison officials claim the prison's electrical system cannot handle it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/27/nyregion/execution-would-be-the-first-since-1960.html|title=Execution Would Be The First Since 1960 (Published 1987)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 27, 1987}}</ref>