previous several months. Death row and "Old Sparky" Connecticut legislated lethal injection as its sole method of execution in 1995. The last person executed by lethal injection was Michael Bruce Ross on May 13, 2005. The last person executed by electrocution was Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky in May 1960. Connecticut's "Old Sparky" had not been tested since it was moved from Wethersfield to the Somers State Prison (now Osborn Correctional Institution) in Somers in 1962, and prison officials said the prison's electrical system could not handle it. The death penalty was abolished in Connecticut in 2012. Notable prisoners Steven Joseph Hayes, perpetrator of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders Joshua Komisarjevsky, perpetrator of the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders As both of these men were on death row and the death penalty has been abolished, they were considered regular inmates. Due to the severity of their crimes, it was deemed unsafe to house them in the Connecticut DOC. Both were moved to maximum security facilities in Pennsylvania. References External links Northern Correctional Institution (Connecticut Department of Correction) Prisons in Connecticut Somers, Connecticut Buildings and structures in Tolland County, Connecticut Capital punishment in Connecticut 1995 establishments in Connecticut