Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that reforms Colorado's felony murder statute, reported The Denver Post.
Under the prior law, there were six felony crimes that could have lead to a felony murder: burglary, robbery, arson, kidnapping, escape and
sexual assault.
Felony murder carries an automatic sentence of life in
prison without parole. That penalty could be imposed even if the person who
was convicted did not directly kill another person.
"That person could merely be a person who was the
driver of a car who didn’t even know his partner, his associate was going to go
in and commit a murder," said Senator Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, one of
the sponsors.
Under the new law, the sentence would be 16 to 48 years in
prison. The measure is not retroactive, and Lee said it would not apply to
cases that have already been through the judicial system.
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