A Connecticut inmate who launched a hunger strike to protest his confinement conditions has been moved off death row more than a year after his sentence was overturned.
Eduardo Santiago tells The Associated Press that he is now in a new cell at the Northern Correctional Institution, and has been told he will have access to privileges that are unavailable to death-row inmates.
Santiago began a hunger strike two weeks ago to protest his continuing detention on death row despite a June 2012 Supreme Court ruling that threw out his sentence and ordered a new sentencing hearing for a 2000 murder-for-hire.
Santiago says the move lifts the stigma of being a death-row inmate.
Department spokeswoman Karen Martucci says the decision to relocate Santiago was unrelated to his protest.
Hunger Striking Inmate Moved Off Death Row
Eduardo Santiago will get privileges unavailable to death-row inmates
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