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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:40 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:40
From the Denver Post:
Johnson and more than 500 others who have lost friends and family to unsolved murders are pushing a plan to end Colorado’s death penalty and spend the savings to investigate the state’s more than 1,300 cold cases.
The bill, which House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, said he plans to introduce next week, has already sparked opposition from the state’s top prosecutors and promises to prompt a political firefight. It threatens to put Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, a former district attorney and a devout Catholic, in tricky territory as well.
Republican Attorney General John Suthers and district attorneys say the death penalty is key to discouraging the worst crimes.