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Colorado Senate Committee Backs Repeal

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"Senate committee backs eliminating Colorado death penalty," is Colleen Slevin's AP report via the Aspen Times.A proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado cleared another hurdle at the Capitol on Wednesday.The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee endorsed the measure (House Bill 1274) in a party-line vote, sending in to another committee for a vote. The bill would take the $1 million now being spent to prosecute death penalty cases and use it to investigate cold cases. That would add seven employees to the state's cold case unit, which currently has only one investigator.All three Democrats on the committee voted for the measure, and both Republicans voted against it.Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, acknowledged the death penalty is expensive but said the state should find other ways to fund cold case investigations, such as cutting funding for tourism promotion or prison recreation programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).