Death Penalty Bill Dies

The bill to end the death penalty in Colorado died today. I had hoped, of course, that we had suddenly become incredibly enlightened enough to end this barbaric practice. Not yet, apparently. Our thanks go out to all the people who pushed so hard to get this bill passed.

Maybe next time.

Democrats helped kill a colleague's bill today that would have shifted funding from death-penalty prosecutions to paying for more cold-case murder investigations.

On a 35-30 vote, lawmakers finished off House Bill 1094, which would have cut in half the state attorney general's four-member death-penalty prosecution team to free up $180,000 to fund a proposed cold-case unit to crack Colorado's 1,200 unsolved murders.

Republicans defeated the bill with 10 votes from Democrats, including House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver. Rocky Mountain News