Colorado death-penalty vote

The Colorado House of Representatives has voted -- narrowly -- to repeal the death penalty.  According to this story, the person who cast the deciding vote did so on the basis of "moral appeals he had heard, including from Archbishop Charles Chaput, the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in Colorado."  (HT:  American Papist).

But wait, this can't be correct . . . Arbp. Charles Chaput is a narrow-minded Republican hack, right?