Tag: nathan dunlap
Files on Colorado’s two death row inmates ‘cloaked in secrecy’
DENVER -- Last spring in Colorado, a bill to abolish the death penalty died and Gov. John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve to death-row inmate Nathan Dunlap. "We must have a larger statewide conversation on capital punishment," Hickenlooper said then.
The grate outdoors
The Colorado Department of Corrections is back in court again, this time defending concrete “shoeboxes” as appropriate spaces for outdoor exercise.
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State Ordered to Disclose Execution Plans
State secrecy about Colorado’s death penalty protocols has been deemed illegal by a Denver District Court.
Quinnipiac Finds Strong Colorado Support for Death Penalty, Close Guv Race
DENVER-- Coloradans support the death penalty by wide margins, according to a poll released today by Quinnipiac University (pdf). Pollsters tied the strong views held on capital punishment to the slim margins Governor John Hickenlooper notched against three potential Republican rivals in the same poll.
ACLU Still Pushing for Secret Nathan Dunlap Execution Documents
When Gov. John Hickenlooper this week blocked the execution of Nathan Dunlap, he called for a statewide conversation about the death penalty. His decision to reprieve the Chuck E. Cheese’s murderer came weeks after Colorado lawmakers killed a bill to abolish capital punishment on grounds that the topic needs more public debate.
Colorado Officials Decline to Detail How Dunlap Would Be Executed
While political observers speculate on the factors shaping Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's thinking on whether or not to prevent the execution later this summer of convicted murderer Nathan Dunlap, civil libertarians are demanding to know how the procedure would be carried out.
Attorneys, Scholars Raise Questions about Constitutionality of Colorado Death Penalty
Colorado’s death penalty is not only massively expensive, critics say it is also unconstitutional because it is so randomly sought.
Colorado’s Death Penalty: Spending Millions to Execute Almost No One
With a bill to repeal the death penalty likely to be introduced in the 2013 Colorado Legislature, there are bound to be philosophical arguments about the merits of capital punishment. One thing that seems beyond debate, though, is that ending the death penalty could save Colorado taxpayers a lot of money.