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A Jessica's Law Proposal in Colorado

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Vincent Carroll, the editorial page editor of the Rocky Mountain News has a column, "Death penalty folly."Under the principle, "One unenforced law deserves another," Republican state Sen. Steve Ward is sponsoring a bill to extend the death penalty in Colorado to those who brutally rape children 12 and younger. Although the Colorado legal system can't seem to impose the death penalty on the most savage murderers, even those who torture their victims first, soon we'll be expected to believe that the most savage rapists will face execution. An interesting theory, but I'm not buying it. In the past 41 years, a grand total of one person has been executed in Colorado - and not a single one in this century. Lawmakers might believe we have capital punishment, but juries, prosecutors and judges have overruled them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).