The death penalty in Colorado, 1859-2015 : ambivalence, inconsistencies, and expense / Michael L. Radelet.
"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 punishm...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hangings in the nineteenth century
- 3. Twentieth century executions and debates
- 4. The thirty year effort 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 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, 2005-December 31, 2015
- Index.