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Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:22
From DenverPost.com:
Lawmakers this morning put a ban on the death penalty back into a bill providing funding to solve cold case murders, setting up their colleagues for politically tricky votes on the controversial topic on the final day of the session.The House in April passed by one vote the original version of House Bill 1274, which would have ended capital punishment and used the savings to build a cold case task force within the Colorado Bureau of Investigations.
The Senate, which has not voted the death penalty up or down, earlier this week took out the death penalty ban and instead implemented a $2.50 fee on anyone convicted of a traffic, misdemeanor or felony offense to pay for grants to local police jurisdictions.