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Update From Colorado

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"Death Penalty Repeal Fails in Colorado," is Kirk Johnson's report for the New York Times.An effort to repeal Colorado?s death penalty law stumbled Monday in the State Senate after two hours of sometimes anguished and angry debate, leaving the bill in limbo and supporters scrambling to find votes as the end of the session looms this week.The Colorado House voted in support of repeal, by a single vote majority, last month.In their debate, lawmakers focused on questions of deterrence, certainty or doubt in the age of genetic evidence, and, far from least in the mix, money in a time of shrinking government resources.As proposed, the bill would have redirected about $1 million now devoted to death penalty costs to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for investigating unsolved crimes known as cold cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).