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No Simple Answer to Death Penalty Decision

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That's the title of an article in Colorado's Canon City Daily Record.  It's written by Rachel Alexander and appeared in the Saturday edition.  LINKFew things in the justice system raise passions like the death penalty. District Attorney candidates state their stands during their campaigns, Web sites in the thousands have been launched, candlelight vigils are conducted, polls are taken, articles are written. Colorado is one of 36 states that maintain a death penalty statute. Two men sit in the Colorado State Penitentiary awaiting execution. The state has executed one man since the penalty was reinstated nationally in 1976. A bill that has been introduced in the State House ? House Bill 1274 ? would abolish the death penalty and move the money spent on it to fund the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cold case unit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).