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There is also news from Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri, today."Use death penalty funds to solve cold cases, group says, " is Amy Hamilton's report in the Saturday edition of the Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado. If it takes repealing the death penalty to free up money to solve unsolved homicides, Howard Morton will take that scenario. Others, such as Rep. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, aren?t willing to make that jump. Morton is the head of Families of Homicide Victims & Missing Persons, a group of about 500 members that has long pushed law enforcement to investigate cold cases. It requires money, though, and Morton said the funding would be freed up if there was no need to allocate funds for the death penalty. House Bill 1274 would do that by repealing the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).