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The Denver Post reports, "House gives initial OK to state's $17.6 billion budget," which contains the following excerpt:Rep. Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, failed again this year in an attempt to cut funding for death-penalty prosecutions in favor of bolstering the CBI cold-case unit. His measure would have provided CBI with $376,643 from the attorney general's office that now has four paid staff positions to aid prosecutors in death penalty cases. Weissmann said the state has only executed one person in 40 years, and there is only one inmate on death row now. There are just seven death penalty cases being prosecuted in the state right now, he said. But Republican opponents painted the amendment, which failed on a 33-31 vote, as anti-death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).