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More on the Colorado Senate Vote

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"Bid to repeal death penalty fails in Senate," is the Denver Post report by Jessica Fender and Lynn Bartels.A bill that would have repealed the death penalty in Colorado and used the savings to fund cold case investigations failed this afternoon in the Senate on a 17-18 vote. Joining all 14 Republicans in opposing the measure were Democrats Mary Hodge of Brighton, Jim Isgar of Hesperus, John Morse of Colorado Springs, and Lois Tochtrop of Thornton. A conference committee earlier in the day put a ban on the death penalty back into a bill providing funding to solve cold case murders, setting up their colleagues for politically tricky votes on the controversial topic on the final day of the session. The House in April passed by one vote the original version of House Bill 1274, which would have ended capital punishment and used the savings to build a cold case task force within the Colorado Bureau of Investigations...continue to full post

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