Tag: capital punishment
Why death penalty abolitionists hit the snooze button in Colorado this...
Activists working to put a stop to Colorado's death penalty have decided not to push a legislative agenda this year. Capital punishment advocates are moving...
Colorado law would make it easier for juries to sentence someone...
A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill today that would make it easier for juries to put someone to death in Colorado. Currently, all 12 jurors in...
Death penalty won’t sway Colorado elections, suggests poll
Capital punishment will not be a deciding issue in Colorado elections, suggest a new poll commissioned by the anti-capital punishment group, the Better Priorities Initiative.
Only 5 percent of Coloradans...
Colorado activists buoyed by Nebraska lawmakers’ vote to abolish death-penalty
Colorado anti-death penalty activists are rejoicing that Nebraska lawmakers voted to repeal that state's death penalty and replace it with life without parole.
Even though...
Wiretap: If Obamacare tanks, GOP wins big – even when 13...
Mass sentence
Those Democrats who think Republicans lose if they win on the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare are wrong, writers Jeffrey Toobin in The...
Littwin: The rush to more botched executions
Now we can understand why John Hickenlooper decided to grant Nathan Dunlap his temporary reprieve last year.
What we talk about when we talk about the death penalty
“There is evil out there, I’ve seen it,” said D.A. Dave Young. “There are people who kill for fun, and will do it again."
Appeals Exhausted for Colorado Chuck E. Cheese’s Killer
The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear the appeal of death-row prisoner Nathan Dunlap, the Colorado man convicted of the 1993 murder of four employees at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant. Dunlap's fate is now in the hands of Governor John Hickenlooper.