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"Colorado death penalty survives," is Jessica Fender's report in today's Denver Post.One by one, senators at last revealed their views Wednesday on the complicated and controversial topic of the death penalty with simple ayes and nays during a roll-call vote in the waning hours of the legislative session. The verdict, by a single vote, came back in favor of keeping capital punishment in Colorado despite appeals from Senate leadership and pleas from the families of victims killed in unsolved murders. The final tally: 17-18. For days, the punishment's fate had been uncertain. House Bill 1274, which passed by a single vote in the House last month, would have ended the penalty and given the savings to the state to investigate cold cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).