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Colorado's HB 1174

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The legislation, which passed the Colorado House on April 21, will be heard later this afternoon by the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee.  You can listen at this LINK, using Windows Media Player.  The hearing will be held in SCR 353.  HB 1274 would dedicate cost savings from repealing capital punishment to fund the investigation of homicide cold cases. Westworld has, "Is the death penalty worse than life in the hole?" on its blog.  The report is written by Alan Prendergast.Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent funding a statewide unit to investigate the 1,400 unsolved murders in Colorado over the past forty years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).