Connie introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on Oklahoma executions, pending establishment and findings of an independent, out-of-state investigation. The resolution also sought to examine the cost of the death penalty versus “life without parole.” Connie formerly chaired the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the “Say NO to SQ 776 campaign. As a family member of a murder victim, Connie has ardently advocated abolishing the death penalty throughout her legislative career, citing the extreme cost of the death penalty vs life without parole; its ineffectiveness; its racial, economic and geographic disparities; our high rate of wrongful convictions, given 10 exonerations; the state’s inability to correctly administer the lethal injection protocol; and the removal of the object of redemption pursuant to Christian faith tenets.