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Tag: capital punishment
Prosecution drops death penalty in Adams County police-shooting case District Attorney...
Prosecutors have backed off seeking a death sentence against the man accused of killing Adams County Deputy Heath Gumm in January 2018.
In a motion...
Guest Post: Colorado’s death penalty does not put inmates to...
Many Coloradans who favor the death penalty might be surprised to learn juries here seldom impose a death sentence, and Colorado rarely executes an...
The Indy 500: Hickenlooper’s “statewide conversation” about the death penalty never...
John Hickenlooper is misrepresenting his record on the death penalty.
Colorado’s former governor, one in a swelling pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls, was on...
Littwin: Whatever the state legislature decides, there is no death penalty...
The big news from the state Capitol has been not only that it’s a new day, with Democrats in charge everywhere, but with the...
Greene: Here’s how race played out in one of Colorado’s three...
Editor's note: This column originally was published on April 28, 2018 with the headline: Greene: Former jury foreman in capital case made to reckon...
Colorado activists bank on midterm blue wave to pass 2019 law...
Note: This story has been updated to include comments from 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler.
Opponents of the death penalty — hoping to capitalize...
The Colorado Independent is fighting to unseal secret records in a...
Update: George Brauchler's office has asked for another two-week extension to submit its legal objections to The Independent's motion to unseal documents about prosecutorial...
Three men still on Colorado’s death row after judge denies capital...
This story has been updated.
A judge today denied a five-year appeal by Sir Mario Owens, a man convicted for the 2005 witness killing of...
Wiretap: Trump guarantees pre-existing conditions will be covered, but he can’t...
In an appearance on Face the Nation, Donald Trump says he guarantees that pre-existing conditions will be covered in any version of an Obamacare...
Lawmakers just killed the bill that would make executions easier
A legislative measure to make capital punishment easier in Colorado just got the ax.
In a committee Feb. 10, a bipartisan group of lawmakers deep-sixed...