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Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a...

It was late December 2019 and defense lawyer Mary Claire Mulligan spent the last week of the decade accompanying a client to his murder...

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...

Meet Colorado’s Public Defender

In recent years, Colorado Public Defender Doug Wilson has come under fire for how his office spends money. Some say the public has the...

Faces of Death: Capital punishment in Colorado could be the year’s...

  Questions about the death penalty in Colorado are bubbling up before the start of the legislative session that begins next month. They include: How much does capital...

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.
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