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Colorado Senate to Debate HB 1274 This Afternoon

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Abe Bonowitz reports that the Colorado Senate is due to take up HB 1274, which would repeal the state's death penalty and dedicate cost savings to fund homicide cold cases, in less than an hour -- at 2:30 pm, MDT.The Senate webcast is here; today's Senate Calendar, here."Colo. lawmakers race to wrap up business for year," is an AP brief, via KRDO-TV.Colorado lawmakers are racing to wrap up business for this year's legislative session. The session must end by midnight Wednesday, although House Speaker Terrance Carroll says he plans to adjourn a day early. Among the issues lawmakers must still decide is whether to abolish the death penalty in Colorado."Colo. may end death penalty to focus on cold cases," is an AP report by P...continue to full post

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