Denver, CO – The Colorado House GOP fought the death penalty repeal until 4:00 A.M. on Wednesday morning, February 25, 2020.
Ultimately, the Democratic majority voted to advance the widely opposed legislation to third and final reading with no amendments. We expect this to pass later in the week, as the late-night debate means the Colorado State House is not in session today.
The House Republicans fought hard to keep what most citizens consider to be a lawful and necessary punishment for senseless killers who show no remorse.
Republicans argued that the convicts on death row in Colorado are remorseless murderers, which is true. They argued that without it, there is not a strong enough deterrent to criminals committing, or confessing to crimes.
Democrats, on the other hand, claimed the death penalty is racist. They implied that anyone who supports the death penalty is racist. This disgusting tactic is employed time and time again by Democrats in Colorado.
If you’re pro-gun, you’re a racist because more black people die in gun-related deaths. If you’re pro-life, you’re a racist because, well, we cannot even fathom how. Also, if you support a punishment, most argue fits heinous crimes, you’re a racist.
Just listen to Representative Adrienne Benavidez (D-Adams), one of the bill sponsors, for example.
We can understand when Christians make the argument that life and death are not in our hands. However, claiming the death penalty is racist when the last person put to death in Colorado was a white man, is absolutely ridiculous.
Stay tuned to Colorado Citizen Press for coverage of the death penalty repeal effort.
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I understand the democrats positions on this subject.
They are constantly working to give the RIGHT TO VOTE back to the murderers and other felons and are counting on EVERY VOTE BEING FOR THEM.
Raised in Nuevo Mexico, having lived for almost a year-and-a-half in the state reformatory with an 80% Hispanic population, which I discovered while crunching statistics for a likely unethical psychology masters degree candidate working there whose thesis examined MMPI and WISC test score variations among four ethnicities of several hundred kids during the most then-recent population of inmates, 80% Latino, 10% Caucasian, 5% Negro and 5% Navajo (the psychologist’s terms contemporaneous ca. 1970), I never experienced such extreme racism in NM as I have since living in Colorado. The worst was subsequent to having married a lovely Hispanic lady in 1977. Our daughters were subjected to harsh treatment in school, and my wife avoids the subject of racism altogether, most of the time.
Who can blame her?
Colorado REEKS of racism, especially among the expert professional class of the so-called “well-educated,” particularly alumni of the piss-poor University of Colorado, in my modestly humble opinion, of course, as it were, pending further review, if you will, among other things.