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Denver Post Columnists Take on the Death Penalty -- and Senators

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Two Denver Post columnists write on the topic in this morning's paper.  Mike Litwin writes, "Facing the death penalty after all."In a stunning reversal of form, it seems the Democrats in the Colorado legislature may choose, at the last moment, to put their collective conscience on the line after all. I'm as stunned by the prospect as you are. But, apparently, the legislature is considering resuscitating the thought-to-be-dead death-penalty bill ? or at least that part of the bill that would abolish capital punishment in Colorado. If the bill is brought back to life via a conference committee, that might well produce a series of on-the- record votes, in both chambers, on the last day of the session. The sound you hear is of a jaw scraping the floor somewhere near the governor's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).