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Colorado abolishes the death penalty Gov. Jared Polis also commuted the...

Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed into a law a bill that ends the death penalty in Colorado for any convictions on or after...

Death penalty passes the House after hours of debate focused on...

Update: This story was originally published on Feb. 25, 2020, when the House passed the death penalty repeal bill by a voice vote. It...

Polis sets up new board to help determine who deserves clemency...

Correction: This story was updated on Feb. 27 to indicate the governor's office will hear clemency request for death penalty cases, not the advisory...

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...

In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an uncompromising time...

It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...

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...

Littwin: The death penalty conversation in Colorado just grew a lot...

It was a coincidence, but hardly a happy one, that a pair of prominent Coloradans made news this week concerning the death penalty. In...