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HB 1274 Passes Colorado House

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The legislation passed on second reading by voice vote.  House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann is the sponsor of the legislation.The initial AP report is "Plan to eliminate death penalty given initial OK ," via the Loveland Reporter-Herald. The Colorado House has given tentative approval to a plan to eliminate the death penalty and use the money to focus on cold cases after victims' relatives asked for help finding closure. The legislation would shift funds currently used to prosecute death-penalty cases to deal with the growing backlog of more than 1,400 unsolved homicides that have stymied local investigators since 1970. House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, a Democrat from Louisville, says the state should be spending money solving those cases instead of defending the only two inmates currently on death row and a half-dozen other cases that are pending...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).