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Colorado moving forward with capital child rape bill

By Douglas A. Berman

I see from this Denver Post story that the Colorado senate is moving forward with a bill to make child rape a capital offense.  Here are excepts from the article:Colorado could put child rapists to death under a bill that won a Senate committee's approval Monday and would put the state on par with just five others that allow the execution of such sex offenders. Prosecutors could try for the death penalty in cases in which rape victims are 12 or younger, where DNA evidence is present and where the perpetrator has been previously convicted of a sex offense against a child.... Colorado public defenders, who oppose the bill, originally estimated that it would make about 260 people a year eligible for the death penalty. It was unclear what an amendment, which limits the bill to repeat offenders, would do to that estimate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).