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Incoming state House Speaker Alec Garnett on Wednesday, Jan. 13 as the Colorado General Assembly opened its 2021 session.
State lawmakers return to the Capitol to begin trying to dig Colorado out of the economic, social and health impacts of the pandemic.
For the third year in a row, Democrats hold a majority in both chambers. Things have changed in the House though, where both parties are operating with new leadership.
House Democrats chose Denver Rep. Alec Garnett to lead the chamber shortly after the November election. His selection as Speaker didn’t come as a surprise to anyone in political circles; the 37-year-old had served as House Majority Leader under the previous Speaker, KC Becker, who was term-limited.
Colorado s Attorney General and Denver s District Attorney are among those calling for the change. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 12:01 PM MST January 26, 2021
DENVER Several criminal justice leaders in Colorado joined dozens of others from across the country to call on the Biden administration to end the federal death penalty.
A bipartisan group of nearly 100 criminal justice leaders on Monday sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to take all actions within their power to immediately and definitively end the death penalty in the United States.
“I do not believe the government should be in the business of executing people,” said Denver DA Beth McCann. “The death penalty is unnecessary to protect public safety, costly, arbitrary and tinged with racial bias. Colorado did away with the death penalty last year and it is now time for the federal government to do the same which is why I am