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Colorado death penalty repeal bill continues moving forward

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, a bill in Colorado to repeal the state's death penalty continues to march forward: A proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado has cleared another hurdle. The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee backed the measure (House Bill 1274) Wednesday at the urging of families of murder victims.  The bill now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee for another vote.... The bill would take the money now being used to prosecute death penalty cases, about $1 million a year, and use it to investigate cold cases instead.  Opponents, including most of the state's district attorneys, say families are being given false hope that their crimes will be solved.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).