"It's time to kill the death penalty," is the title of Barry Noreen's column in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
No one likes to go easy on crime in an election year and there was no attempt to end Colorado’s death penalty law during this session of the Colorado General Assembly.
Too bad, because the ultimate sanction is unevenly applied in Colorado, it’s irrational, it does not serve as a deterrent to murder and costs us a lot of money. And there’s always that chance that we convict people who are innocent.
Last week, Robert Dewey, 51, was exonerated of the rape and murder charges he was convicted of in 1996 in Mesa County after DNA evidence proved he could not have been the killer.
Good thing we didn’t execute Mr. Dewey, right?
And:
Cold-blooded killers belong in prison for life, but death penalty cases cost more money than the cost of a prison cell. And lethal injections don’t make us safer.
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