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Tag: Death Penalty
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...
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...
Lawmakers debate 2 ways to make death easier in Colorado
Whether the Grim Reaper will register as a lobbyist remains to be seen, but Death's agenda is up for debate in two forms at the...
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...
Colorado law would make it easier for juries to sentence someone...
A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill today that would make it easier for juries to put someone to death in Colorado. Currently, all 12 jurors in...
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...
Reader’s view: If at first you don’t succeed, kill, kill again
Last week, The Colorado Independent reported that Republican Rep. Kim Ransom will be proposing a new law that would give prosecutors a second chance, in...
Lawmaker: Prosecutors need two chances to win a death penalty verdict
Republican Rep. Kim Ransom is working on new legislation to give prosecutors a second chance, in the case of a hung jury, to win a death...
National Evangelical Association softens death penalty stance
Evangelical Christians are divided on the death penalty, and a new statement from the National Evangelical Association acknowledges it.
In years past, the NEA has...
Wiretap: Georgia woman sings Amazing Grace as the state kills her
Amazing Grace
The only woman on Georgia death row has been executed. Courts rejected her plea that cites the pope's every life is sacred line. She...