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"Senate votes to keep death penalty," is Joe Hanel's report in the Durango Herald.House Bill 1274, which sought to repeal the death penalty and use the cost savings to fund a cold-case unit, still is alive. But senators voted to strip out language on the death penalty and instead focus on the cold-case unit. Money for the unit would come from a surcharge on traffic tickets.If the Senate offers its final approval today, supporters would have one more chance to rescue the death-penalty repeal in a conference committee. The Legislature adjourns for the year Wednesday.And:The amendment that gutted the bill came from a Democrat, Sen. John Morse of Colorado Springs. Morse, a former police chief, said he struggled mightily with how to vote on the bill...continue to full post

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