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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Bill Would Kill Death Penalty

Rocky Mountain News

Monique LaSuer, a late-night hotel auditor in Colorado Springs, was beaten and strangled to death in 2000. Her killer was never found.

But if a Democratic bill is successful, the investigation into her murder could gain new life.

The bill, introduced in the state House of Representatives on Monday, would abolish the state's death penalty and direct an estimated $4 million in savings to cold-case investigations.

"I just wish the representatives knew that these murderers are out there living in their neighborhoods," said Gail LaSuer, Monique's mother. "Killing one person on death row is nothing if all these other killers are out there."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You people dont get it. Cops dont find criminals, people do.djw

Anonymous said...

When individuals can be responsible for a homicide and get plea offers because it's a known fact that the death penalty is taken off the table and therefore making the only threat of punishment life unless a plea bargain is offered you have a flawed system.

The death penalty does no good in a state that doesn't use it.

Why spend the money to take the law off the books when it's already politically been dead for years.

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