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Updated: 7:20 AM Apr 30, 2009
Senate Committee Backs Eliminating Death Penalty
A proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado has cleared another hurdle.
Posted: 10:51 PM Apr 29, 2009Reporter: Associated Press |
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A proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado has cleared another hurdle.
The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee backed the measure (House Bill 1274) Wednesday at the urging of families of murder victims. The bill now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee for another vote.
The measure passed the House by a single vote last week and has drawn the attention of national anti-death penalty activists, including the father of an Oklahoma City bombing victim, who testified against it Wednesday.
The bill would take the money now being used to prosecute death penalty cases, about $1 million a year, and use it to investigate cold cases instead.
Opponents, including most of the state's district attorneys, say families are being given false hope that their crimes will be solved.
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death penalty is underused! I am amazed that those left behind due to a murderer would actually back the idea ofremoving the death penalty.. I find it insane there is "cruel & unusual" garbage... I wish there was a way to inflict the same pain on murderers, rapists & child offenders! and that might not even be enough.. for their crimes! the insanity plea and other grey areas are taken advantage of.. no one who murders, rapes or those who harm a child is in their right mind.. these pieces of garbage all deserve death! the scum of the earth never can serve enough "time" to pay for their crimes.. and they too often are released for "good behavior" just to commit more crimes! eliminating these wastes of flesh would reduce further murders, rapes & offenses to children.. it would cure many future "cold cases".. if only we used the death penalty & stopped allowing for so much grey area in murder/rape/child offense cases!
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