Tag: Death Penalty
Homebrew: Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s first death penalty case begins
Death penalty
For the first time in his 10 year career as Denver's district attorney, Mitch Morrissey is gunning for the death penalty in the case...
Experts: Penalty phase of Aurora shooting trial will be “gut-wrenching”
Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is guilty of all 165 charges against him, a jury found Thursday.
Judge Carlos Samour read the long list of...
Littwin: James Holmes real trial begins: To kill or not to...
Now that James Holmes has been found guilty of the terror that he brought to the Aurora theater that night three years ago, the...
Wiretap: Sense and nonsense in Obamacare’s Supreme Court ride
Threat, no threat
Ezra Klein writes in Vox that The New York Times blows a major hole through the Obamacare case soon to be decided...
Only in Nevada: Turning the state’s only working execution chamber into...
Many Coloradans are eying Nebraska lawmakers' vote this week to repeal the death penalty. But some heads are turning west toward Nevada where legislators...
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...
Littwin: The death penalty’s dying breaths, even in Nebraska
Someday when they write the history of the death penalty in the United States, it will include the fact that on the day Boston...
And so it starts: Six things to watch for in the...
We all remember hearing the news. Coloradans woke one hot July morning to word of another mass murder in Denver’s suburbs. Thirteen years after...
Littwin: Death penalty politics, gutsy and easy
THE death penalty story is back. John Hickenlooper and Complete Colorado joined forces -- sort of -- to once again put the issue front...