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(DENVER) Colorado is set to become the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty after lawmakers on Wednesday approved a repeal bill that Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has pledged to sign into law.
Passage had been virtually certain with Democrats holding a substantial majority in the House even with several Democratic lawmakers casting no votes
The bill passed by the Democrat-dominated state Senate in January would apply to offenses charged starting July 1 and would not affect the fate of three men on Colorados death row who face execution by lethal injection. But Polis has suggested he might consider clemency for them if asked.
All clemency requests are weighty decisions that the governor will judge on their individual merits, said Polis spokesman Conor Cahill.
Colorados last execution was carried out in 1997, when Gary Lee Davis was put to death by lethal injection for the 1986 kidnapping, rape and murder of a neighbor, Virginia May.
https://time.com/5791323/colorado-end-death-penalty/
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(19,564 posts)My friends just bought a home there and said I can live there with them. It's sounding better all the time.
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(19,564 posts)I'm extremely weary of where I live now and seriously thinking of moving. I can find work there or work remotely. Either, or.