The history of the death penalty in Colorado
Michael L. Radelet (Author)
"Radelet chronicles the details of each capital punishment trial and execution that took place in Colorado since 1859. Radelet accounts the debates and struggles over the use of the death penalty, placing the hundreds of cases into the context of a gradual worldwide trend away from this punishment"--Provided by publisher
History
1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages)
9781607325123, 1607325128
969772986
Foreword by Sister Helen Prejean; Foreword by Stephen Leonard; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Hangings in the Nineteenth Century; 3. Twentieth-Century Executions and Debates; 4. The Thirty-Year Struggle to Obtain Execution No. 103; 5. The Death Penalty in Colorado in the Early Twenty-First Century; 6. The Hickenlooper Years; Epilogue: Summary, Trends, and Some Future Possibilities; Appendix 1: Catalog of Colorado Executions, 1859-Present; Appendix 2: People Sentenced to Death in Colorado, 1860-December 31, 2015, Not Executed and No Longer on Death Row. Appendix 3: Colorado Death Sentences, January 1, 1975
December 31, 2015Index