Tag: execution

(Updated Friday, Jan. 3, at 10:30 p.m.) Let’s begin with the obvious. Two things: Donald Trump has put us onto the path of a possible...

  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...

Now that James Holmes has been found guilty of the terror that he brought to the Aurora theater that night three years ago, the...

  There are fresh doubts over the 2004 execution in Texas of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of murdering his three young daughters. The...

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear the appeal of death-row prisoner Nathan Dunlap, the Colorado man convicted of the 1993 murder of four employees at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant. Dunlap's fate is now in the hands of Governor John Hickenlooper.