Victims' families urge senators not to put a price on the death penalty

Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 11:08 p.m.

The state's death penalty should be retained as justice for the deaths of those killed by likes of the Carr brothers or Justin Thurber, lawmakers heard Thursday.

The penalty shouldn't be weighed in terms of cost, victims' family members said.

"You cannot put a price tag on my sisters' life," Jennifer Sanderholm told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That is ultimately what you will do if you abolish the death penalty”

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