However, the death penalty is possible for intentional first-degree murder if the crime was committed before July 1, 2020, but the death penalty in Colorado has been abolished for all crimes after that date.
Following Colorado abolishing the death penalty for all crimes after that date, Governor Jared Polis commuted all of Colorado's remaining death row prisoners' sentences to life-without-parole.
[3] Second-degree murder is defined as intentionally causing the death of another person without premeditation, and that the killing was not in the heat-of-passion, or causing the death of another person during the commission or attempted commission of a felony under Colorado's felony murder rule.
Heat-of-passion second-degree murder is defined as a mitigated version of intentional second-degree murder, in which the perpetrator intentionally caused the death of another person in the sudden heat-of-passion, commonly known in other jurisdictions as voluntary manslaughter.
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