Opinion ID: 2569354
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Heading: Whether the enactment of Colorado's death penalty statute was valid.

Text: Harlan challenges the validity of the 1991 enactment of section 16-11-103 under article IV, section 9 of the Colorado Constitution, which confines the scope of legislation enacted following a governor's proclamation convening an extraordinary session of the legislature to matters specially named in the proclamation. Colo. Const. art. IV, § 9; see Wieder v. People, 722 P.2d 396, 398 (Colo. 1986). We conclude that the reenactment of section 16-11-103 bore a rational relationship to Governor Romer's proclamation to the General Assembly to consider the death penalty statute in light of judicial decisions that had rendered it inoperable. See Dunlap, 975 P.2d at 736 n. 4; People v. Young, 814 P.2d 834, 846-47 (Colo.1991).