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one vote shy

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In Colorado repeal efforts came within vote of making that state the third to abolish in recent years. Folks on the ground in Colorado appear to have done one heck of a job even if their efforts came up a little short.  This vote wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near this close.  We are winning. The Colorado Senate has voted 18-17 to defeat a measure that would have repealed the death penalty and use the savings from its elimination to fund cold case investigations. The death penalty bill came apart in the Senate, when lawmakers voted down a ban on the punishment.  Instead, they imposed a series of new fees to investigate unsolved cases.   The sponsors of the bill expect to return the penalty to the bill, along with those fees. Senator John Morse of the Springs was involved in the last-minute rewriting of the bill Monday night...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).