A bill to repeal the death penalty in Colorado has been sent to the House of Representatives.  There has only been one criminal executed in Colorado history, occurring in 1977.

“I am one-hundred percent against it. I think there have been too many documented cases where more evidence has proved a person’s innocence. I also believe it has been misapplied towards minorities and in the end I don’t think it is a decision humans can make,”  Wade Baxter said.

Baxter also believes the cost for lethal injection is too high. He explains that it is cheaper to have criminals imprisoned for life.

“I’m for the death penalty but only if everything points to them. They have to be without a shadow of a doubt that the person committed the crime,” Jan Pieper said.

Currently there are three criminals on death row. If the death penalty gets repealed all these members will be pardoned.

The chemicals used in lethal injection have raised in price from $83.35 to $1,286.86 a person. There are over three thousand inmates on death row currently in the nation.

“When I was young I was all for it but as I got older I became against it. I have seen the legal system make mistakes and seen people executed who weren’t guilty. Killing is labeled as wrong but we are going to kill criminals for what they did,” Frank Pauciello said.

A final consensus has not been made on the final decision to repeal the death penalty as of now.