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Colorado legislative victory

By cdw

Colorado’s House has passed repeal legislation: Colorado House votes to eliminate death penalty—-Money saved would be used to focus on cold cases The Colorado House has approved a plan to eliminate the death penalty and use the money to focus on cold cases. The measure now goes to the Senate. The measure passed Tuesday by a single vote, 33-32, after victims’ relatives asked lawmakers to help with unsolved slayings. Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Fort Garland, cast the tie-breaking vote. The legislation would shift funds currently used to prosecute death-penalty cases to deal with the growing backlog of more than 1,400 unsolved homicides that have stymied local investigators since 1970.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).