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.
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Appendix 3: Colorado Death Sentences, January 1, 1975 -- December 31, 2015Index.
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"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.
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History of the death penalty in colorado.
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160732511X
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Capital punishment-- Colorado-- History.
Criminal justice, Administration of-- Colorado-- History.
Executions and executioners-- Colorado.
Capital punishment.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Executions and executioners.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)