'Make My Day' law faces prison modification
DENVER (AP) — A prison cell may be your home, but that doesn't mean you can use deadly force to defend it, according to a Colorado bill that won approval in the state House Thursday.
The 1985 law has been used at least twice to exonerate Colorado inmates accused of killing fellow inmates who entered their cells.
In recent years the law has been invoked to throw out murder charges against two inmates accused of stabbing a fellow inmate to death in the Sterling Correctional Facility.