Denver, CO – On Monday, Governor Jared Polis signed the death penalty repeal bill, SB20-100, into law. Prosecutors will not be able to seek the death penalty for cases beginning after July 1.
In typical fashion, Democrats made this entire issue about race, when it is about justice for victims and their families. Part of what is absurd about this claim is the last person put to death in Colorado was white. Colorado carried out the death sentence of Gary Lee Davis in 1997 for the 1986 kidnapping, rape, and murder of his neighbor.
Polis also commuted the sentences of the three Colorado inmates on death row, including Nathan Dunlap. The notorious murderer killed four Chuck E. Cheese’s employees and seriously injured a fifth in 1993. Dunlap did not show remorse during the subsequent court proceedings.
The highly controversial move sparked outrage amongst Coloradans and some of the victims’ family members. Regardless, Democrats and Polis ignored their pleas.
What strikes us as the biggest problem with a death penalty repeal is the loss of a tool to find closure for victim’s families. Oftentimes, the death penalty is used as a valid means to get a confession, guilty plea, or more information about victims’ locations.
For instance, Chris Watts, who strangled his wife and two daughters and hid the bodies on an oil site in Colorado, pleaded guilty when offered a life deal rather than the death penalty. The death penalty saved time and money on the prosecution in this instance, without being handed out.
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So if it is wrong to put to death someone guilty of taking another human life, I wonder why it is not also wrong to take the life of an innocent unborn child? And if more black children are aborted than any other race doesn’t that make abortion about race?