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Colorado’s Death Row
George Woldt. A panel of three state judges on Wednesday ordered the death penalty for George Woldt, convicted of murdering and raping a 22-year-old college student in 1997. Woldt was convicted in March after a two-week trial. He had been charged with first-degree murder and six other felonies in the attack on Jacine Gielinski. The panel of judges who imposed the death penalty did so after hearing 13 days of testimony that concluded last week. (9/6/00, The Denver Post)
George Woldt is currently pursuing a direct appeal in the Colorado Supreme Court. He is represented by Andrew Heher of the Colorado State Public Defender's Appellate Division. (11/26/01, CADP)
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- Woldt, George: A penalty hearing is scheduled to begin in August 2000 for George Woldt, recently convicted of murdering a young woman in Colorado Springs. He is represented by Terri Brake and Doug Wilson of the state public defender's office. (Spring 2000, CADP Newsletter)
- Defense Argues Killer Should Get Life Sentence
COLORADO SPRINGS -- Prosecutor Dave Young put a large slide of Jacine Gielinski's battered body on the projector screen Monday and told three judges, "look at what this man did to her." "This man" is George Woldt, and a three-judge panel opened the sentencing phase of Woldt's trial Monday to decide whether he will live or die. (8/15/00, Denver Rocky Mountain News)
- Man Convicted of Murder Awaits Sentencing
COLORADO SPRINGS -- The three judges deciding the fate of convicted killer George Woldt will consider the testimony of two grief-stricken mothers. The mother of murdered college student Jacine Gielinski wants Woldt to die by lethal injection. Woldt's mother has asked the judges to spare his life and sentence him to life in prison instead so he can continue to study the Bible and minister to other prisoners. (8/27/00, The Daily Camera)
- Killer-Rapist Sentenced to Death
A panel of three state judges on Wednesday ordered the death penalty for George Woldt, convicted of murdering and raping a 22-year-old college student in 1997. Woldt was convicted in March after a two-week trial. He had been charged with first-degree murder and six other felonies in the attack on Jacine Gielinski. The panel of judges who imposed the death penalty did so after hearing 13 days of testimony that concluded last week. (9/6/00, The Denver Post)
- Death Penalty Given in 1997 Rape, Murder
COLORADO SPRINGS -- George Woldt will pay with his life for the 1997 kidnap, rape, and murder of former Littleton High School athlete Jacine Gielinski. A three-judge panel delivered its sentence of the 23-year-old Woldt to a packed courtroom Wednesday, after two weeks of sentencing testimony and a week of deliberation. (9/7/00, Denver Rocky Mountain News)
- Torture Killer Sentenced to Death
COLORADO SPRINGS -- George Woldt, the man who instigated the torturous rape and murder of a college student, was sentenced to death by lethal injection Wednesday by a three-judge panel. Woldt, 23, had no outward reaction upon learning at 1:45 p.m. that he will join six other men on Colorado's death row. If his appeals fail, he will be strapped to a gurney and poisoned to death for a crime that shocked the Colorado Springs community. (9/7/00, The Denver Post)
- Woldt's Sentencing Postponed
DENVER -- The state Supreme Court has postponed George Woldt's second sentencing hearing while it decides whether the convicted murderer falls under a streamlined appeals process that could speed up his execution. (9/7/00, The Daily Camera)
- Second Death Row Inmate Seeks New Sentence
A second inmate awaiting execution in Colorado has asked the state's highest court to reduce his sentence to life after a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring that death-penalty decisions be made only by juries. In a motion filed Monday with the state Supreme Court, George Woldt said the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, combined with state law, requires that his sentence be reduced to life. (7/3/02, Rocky Mounatin News)
- Colorado Supreme Court Orders Briefs
The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered opening briefs filed next month in two death penalty cases that could be affected by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring juries, not judges, to decide life or death sentences. The two cases are those of Francisco Martinez ... and George Woldt. (7/16/02, Rocky Mountain News)
- Colorado Supreme Court Considers Death Sentences
Lawyers for George Woldt, 26, and Francisco Martinez, 28, argued that their death sentences were invalid after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared the state's death penalty law unconstitutional. The attorneys said that the U.S. Supreme Court last June invalidated laws in Colorado and other states that allowed judges or panels of judges to impose death sentences rather than the trial jury that heard the case and rendered the verdict. (12/5/02, Rocky Mountain News)
- Court Voids Death Sentences
The Colorado Supreme Court today held that Colorado's three judge death penalty sentencing system is unconstitutional, reversing the death sentences of murderers George Woldt and Francisco Martinez Jr. ... Both were sentenced to death by three-judge panels. Under today's ruling, each will be resentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. (2/24/03, The Denver Post)
- Court
Asked to Uphold 2 Colorado Death
Sentences
Colorado
asked
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
on
Thursday
to
let
two
convicted
murderers,
spared
execution
by
earlier
court
rulings,
be
put
to
death
after
all.
George
Woldt,
26,
and
Francisco
Martinez
Jr.,
29,
were
convicted
by
juries
and
then
sentenced
to
die
by
three-judge
panels.
The
U.S.
Supreme
Court
a
year
ago
threw
out
judge
sentencings
in
death
penalty
cases.
The
Colorado
Supreme
Court
then
threw
out
the
death
sentences
for
Woldt
and
Martinez,
ordering
them
to
life
in
prison
without
parole.
Colorado
Attorney
General
Ken
Salazar
is
appealing
that
ruling
to
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court.
(5/22/03,
Rocky
Mountain
News)
Search the news archives of the Boulder Daily Camera, the Denver Post, and the Denver Rocky Mountain News for additional information.
For information on other prisoners, see Colorado's Death Row.
See the Web site's News section for more articles and information about the death penalty.
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