Why was the death penalty abolished in Colorado?

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[...] Second, the death penalty had become obsolete in Colorado because it was last used in 1997 : Gary Lee Davis was given a lethal injection for kidnapping and assaulting a 33-year-old woman. -Third, the application of the death penalty in the United States has shown that it is possible to convict an innocent person: in 2019, the 167 th American death sentence was exonerated. Professor Radelet had alors shown that innocent people are sometimes executed. According to his own research, at least 23 innocent people were executed in the United States between 1905 and 1974. [...]

[...] Why was the death penalty abolished in Colorado? On march 23 th 2020, the governor Jared Polis has signed legislation into law banning the death penalty in colorado. Colorado became the 22 nd state to ban the death penalty in the United States after Washington, Maryland and Connecticut. Colorado's new law applies to criminal charges as of July 2020. Now, in this state, the harshest penalty becomes life imprisonment without the possibility of remission. Why the death penalty was abolished in this state? [...]

[...] Indeed, a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States had ruled the death penalty illegal in the absence of a review of judicial proceedings (Furman V. Georgia). The Court had concluded that the arbitrary use of the death penalty was contrary to the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution. In 1976, by the Gregg decision. V Georgia, the Supreme Court reverses its deci ion and validates the death penalty. Thus, since 1976, each state has been free to make its own legislation on the issue, with Congress only able to abolish the death penalty for federal crimes. The global abolition of the death penalty (at federal and state level) can therefore only take place by a judicial decision considering the death penalty inconstitutional under the Eight Amendment as in 1972. However, in view of the current composition of the Supreme Court, this seems iimpossible. Indeed of the 9 judges, 6 are conservative like Clarence Thomas and Samuel alito. [...]