Tag: Sir Mario Owens
Three men still on Colorado’s death row after judge denies capital...
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A judge today denied a five-year appeal by Sir Mario Owens, a man convicted for the 2005 witness killing of...
Sen. Rhonda Fields on news of possible retrial of son’s killer:...
Sir Mario Owens, currently sitting on death row for the murders of three people, could end up with a new trial because of alleged...
Last-minute firing of Owens’ death penalty judge raises suspicions
Lawyers say Colorado’s judicial branch has unlawfully removed a well-respected judge from presiding over the appeal of an Aurora man’s death sentence.
After years on the...
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."
Court finds government misconduct tainted Colorado death penalty case
A state appeals court has found that, in their efforts to convict David Bueno in a death-penalty case stemming from a 2004 prison murder, prosecutors withheld bombshell evidence that suggested they targeted the wrong man.
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.