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Update from Colorado & Gov. Ritter's First Comments on HB 1274

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Abe Bonowitz reports that the Colorado Senate has recessed and is due to reconvene at 2:30 pm, MDT.  As indicated earlier, you'll be able to listen the Senate session, using Windows Media Player, here.The Denver Post's latest update on the status of HB 1274 is, "Ritter: Death penalty repeal should not tie to cold cases."  In his first comments on the bill, Gov. Bill Ritter said today that he thinks the proposal should not have been tied to funding cold cases. "Those are two separate issues, and I told the sponsor of the bill they were wrong to do that," he said. "You don't get a pure debate about either." The governor, who previously served as district attorney in Denver, has been criticized for not saying where he stands on the bill...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).