DENVER (AP) A House committee approved a plan Monday to eliminate the death penalty and use the money to focus on cold cases after victims' relatives asked for help finding closure.
The House Judiciary Committee approved the measure (House Bill 1274) after hours of emotional testimony from supporters who said the money could be better spent finding the people who killed their loved ones. The bill now goes to the Appropriations Committee.
The legislation would shift funds currently used to prosecute death-penalty cases to deal with the growing backlog of more than 1,400 unsolved homicides that have stymied local investigators since 1970.
House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, a Democrat from Louisville, said the state should be spending money solving those cases instead of defending the only two inmates currently on death row and a half-dozen other cases that are pending. He said it's a question of resources, not a moral debate.
''Does an eye for an eye trump thou shalt not kill? I don't know,'' Weissmann told the committee.

Colorado Wire - cbs4denver.com

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be nice to the people on your way up,because you will meet them again on your way down

The money used for the DP, would be better utilized to focus on the many cold case file's, for closure, and also to get those who commited the crimes off the streets for a safer society too.

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I so agree peanut.

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