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Colorado: update

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Colorado’s death row recently doubled.  via email: Colorado?s death row population doubled last week when Sir Mario Owens was officially sentenced to death on Monday, December 8. He joins Nathan Jerard Dunlap, who methodically murdered four people in an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese 15 years ago this month. In the December issue of 5280, editors Patrick Doyle and Natasha Gardner revisit the macabre anniversary in ?The Politics of Killing,? a five-month long investigative reporting effort that raises questions about Colorado?s use of the death penalty by investigating the collision of justice, politics, vengeance, and ambition. Today, Dunlap?s state appeals are exhausted and his case sits in U.S. District Court. Popular first-term governor Bill Ritter may be only person who can stop Dunlap?s execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).