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"Which state's philosophy on death penalty is best?" is by Marjorie Cortez, an editorial writer at the Deseret NewsAfter 21 years of living in Utah, describing myself as a Colorado native hardly seems legitimate. To cope with the ongoing tug between these two places, I've become a student of the politics and history of each state. At the risk of oversimplification, Utah has remained a very red place in my two decades as a "Utahn" while my home state of Colorado has trended increasingly blue. For example, the Colorado Senate debated a bill Monday whether to abolish the death penalty after the bill narrowly passed the House. As proposed, the legislation would take the $1 million spent each year to prosecute death penalty cases and use it to investigate cold cases instead...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).