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Court finds government misconduct tainted Colorado death penalty case

A state appeals court has found that, in their efforts to convict David Bueno in a death-penalty case stemming from a 2004 prison murder, prosecutors withheld bombshell evidence that suggested they targeted the wrong man.

Colorado’s Death Penalty: Spending Millions to Execute Almost No One

With a bill to repeal the death penalty likely to be introduced in the 2013 Colorado Legislature, there are bound to be philosophical arguments about the merits of capital punishment. One thing that seems beyond debate, though, is that ending the death penalty could save Colorado taxpayers a lot of money.