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Is There Breathing Room in Colorado?

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The final hours of a legislative session is a frenetic time.  Colorado legislators will adjourn tomorrow, but supporters of HB 1274 believe there is a small chance that death penalty repeal can be returned to the bill.  Yesterday, senators stripped the repeal portion of the bill ou,t requiring a return to the House chamber.  Odds are against a sufficient number of senators changing their vote, but..."Death penalty repeal gets 11th hour reprieve," is the report by John Schroyer for the Colorado Springs Gazette.A proposal to repeal Colorado's death penalty and divert the savings toward investigating unsolved murders has gotten a reprieve, despite having been rejected Monday by the state Senate. The measure, which had been approved by the Colorado House, ran into opposition in the Senate, where lawmakers eliminated the repeal of the death penalty...continue to full post

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