CADP Proposes State Study of the Death Penalty
CADP Supporters:
The Board of Directors of Coloradans Against the Death Penalty, CADP, is promoting a campaign to get all the political parties in Colorado to support a study of the death penalty.
We are proposing that the precinct caucuses be used to recommend that the political parties in Colorado support an effort to get the legislature to commission a study of the death penalty.
The proposals from the precinct caucuses can be carried to the county party conventions and from there to the state conventions. The mere introduction of these questions should provide an opportunity to educate our fellow citizens about the death penalty. The following are some of the questions that should be answered by the study.
Surely the citizens of Colorado should know the answers to these questions before such a drastic and irrevocable punishment as an execution is carried out in our name.
Please propose this resolution at your party caucus meeting. Pass this message on to your friends and other organizations. The caucus date is April 11th. Check with your party headquarters for times and locations.
Democrats at www.coloradodems.org 303-830-8989
Republicans at www.cologop.org 800-236-3769
Thanks for your support.
Don Bounds
April 4, 2000
CADP Supporters:
Yesterday the Colorado Democratic Party adopted their platform for the year 2000. Included in the platform is the following:
"We support the commission of a study of the death penalty and its associated issues and problems by the Colorado General Assembly, and a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty until completion of this study."
Thanks to all of you who pushed this through from the caucus level on up. If anyone has any information about the Republican Platform regarding the death penalty please let me know.
Don Bounds
June 4, 2000
RESOLVED:
THAT THE COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD COMMISSION A STUDY OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE STATE OF COLORADO ANSWERING AT LEAST THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1) ARE ALL DEATH PENALTY CASES INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED, DEFENDED, JUDGED AND SENTENCED WITH EQUAL FAIRNESS? IF NOT, WHAT MUST BE DONE TO INSURE THAT THEY ARE?
2) WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE REQUIRED TO PROTECT AGAINST EXECUTING AN INNOCENT PERSON? FOR EXAMPLE, SHOULD NOT COMPETENT DNA EVIDENCE BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO IMPOSE A DEATH SENTENCE?
3) FROM BEGINNING TO END, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ADEQUATELY INVESTIGATE, PROSECUTE, DEFEND, JUDGE, INCARCERATE AND EXECUTE A PERSON?
4) FROM BEGINNING TO END, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ADEQUATELY INVESTIGATE, PROSECUTE, DEFEND, JUDGE AND INCARCERATE A PERSON FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE?
5) IS LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE A FAIR ALTERNATIVE TO THE DEATH PENALTY?
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