Arguments for maintaining the death penalty in Colorado are losing power. As state Sen. John Morse said in speaking about the legalization of marijuana two weeks ago, the intense budget crisis in Colorado will force lawmakers to rethink positions…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, confirmed earlier this month after a bruising battle with Republicans, has cast her first vote on the court in a case that’s sure to leave Republicans saying, “I told you so.”
An Arapahoe County jury decided Monday that Robert Keith Ray will be sentenced to die for arranging the 2005 killing of a witness to another murder committed by Ray a year earlier, the Aurora Sentinel reports.
House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann and Sen. Morgan Carroll are angling to repeal the state death penalty and direct the estimated $370,000 cost savings to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s Cold Case Homicide Team.
Will Colorado follow New Mexico’s lead? Gov. Bill Richardson abolished the death penalty Wednesday and replaced it with life without parole for the most heinous crimes.
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Nathan Dunlap, on Colorado’s death row for killing four employees of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993 (and convicted in 1996), lost his last state level appeal before the Colorado Supreme Court today. Several appeals in the federal…
Many lawmakers indicated surprise and some indignation earlier this month when state Rep. Paul Weissmann proposed abolishing the death penalty in Colorado and using some of the proceeds to create a cold case unit designed to crack an estimated…
In what Rep. Paul Weissmann described as a “convergence of ideas,” his bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado and divert the money to a cold case unit to solve an estimated 1,200 unsolved murders ultimately sailed out…
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