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Editorial Roundup

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There are editorials today from Colorado and Kansas.  Let's start with, "Eliminating death penalty in Colorado the right move," from the Boulder Daily Camera.  It's signed by Erika Stutzman for the editorial board.Count us among those applauding the Colorado House's close-as-a-shave vote to eliminate the death penalty here. The bill, which now goes to the state Senate, would take money used for death penalty cases and apply it toward solving cold cases.There are more than 1,400 unsolved homicides since 1970 in Colorado. House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, pointed out that the last death-penalty case tried in Colorado cost $1.4 million to prosecute. Here's what happened: Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, charged with the brutal killing of his girlfriend, pleaded guilty instead...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).