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Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
(CADP), formerly Coloradans Against the Death Penalty,
is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to making our justice system more effective
by establishing smart alternatives that abolish
capital punishment. We are concerned
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The Douglas County District Attorney's office is seeking the death penalty against a man accused of killing two people in a murder-for-hire case. Josiah Sher, 27, faces the death penalty in the Feb. 23, 2011, deaths of Amara Wells, 39, and Bob Rafferty, 49, said Casimir Spencer, spokeswoman for District Attorney Carol Chambers. (1/31/12, The Denver Post)
The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's "Death Row USA" showed a decrease of 29 inmates in the death row population between January 1 and April 1, 2011. The total population of state and federal death rows is significantly smaller now (3,222 inmates) than in 2000 (3,682 inmates). ... Alabama (206). Neither California nor Pennsylvania have carried out an executiion in the past six years. The report also contains information on the race and gender of the victims in the underlying murders for those executed and an overview of recent legal developments related to capital punishment.
(1/9/12, DPIC Update)
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When you've spent close to three decades as one of America's leading opponents of capital punishment, you develop an understanding of what states truly have the will to execute their condemned. And Sister Helen Prejean, the Dead Man Walking author who's in Aurora tonight for a public talk on vengeance, forgiveness and reconciliation, has reason to believe that the death penalty may be on its last legs in Colorado. (11/30/11, Westword)
Good question. His spokeswoman Megan Castle provided an inconclusive response Wednesday to the question of whether Hickenlooper would push for a change in the death penalty in Colorado. "This is not an issue that the Governor takes lightly," she said in an e-mail. "Most Governors struggle with the enormity of the decision." In a Denver Post questionnaire during the 2010 campaign, Hickenlooper said this when asked whether the death penalty should be repealed: "No, but it should be restricted." (11/23/11, The Denver Post)
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"Society changes. Knowledge accumulates.
We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments
that did not seem cruel and unusual at one
time may, in the light of reason and experience,
be found cruel and unusual at a later time."
-- John Paul Stevens, retired Supreme Court
Justice
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