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Colorado Senate Falls One Vote Short of Repeal

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Yesterday a Colorado bill that would have repealed the death penalty and dedicated the savings to solving cold cases failed by just one vote in the Senate. The Colorado House voted in favor of repeal by one vote last month. The bill would have redirected $1 million currently spent on the death penalty to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for investigating unsolved crimes known as cold cases of which Colorado has 1,400. Senator Morgan Carroll, a Democratic co-sponsor of the bill, believed passage of this legislation would have resulted in more cases solved and more killers held accountable. "Justice at least means: find the person who did it," Ms. Carroll stated.Though the bill did not pass, with a vote of 17-18 in favor of the legislation, yet another state demonstrates that public confidence and support of the death penalty is faltering...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).