USA - Montana. The House Judiciary Committee turned dowh a proposal to abolish death penalty

A proposal to abolish Montana's death penalty has failed again. A bill to repeal capital punishment and replace it with life in prison was introduced in the lower house of Montana’s legislature. But it once again didn't get past the Judiciary Committee, which voted to table the bill. It's the same body that stalled a similar proposal that made it all the way to the senate in 2009 and 2011. The final vote from the 20-member committee was 11-9 in favour of tabling it once again. The committee stalled similar proposals, which made their way through the state senate in 2007, 2009 and 2011.