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On March 23, 2020, Polis signed a bill repealing the death penalty. Polis also commuted the sentences for all three men on death row, including Dunlap, to life without parole. [3] [20] [21] Dunlap remains incarcerated at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City.
In 2011, the State of Colorado moved its death row prisoners to Sterling to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Nathan Dunlap, a death row inmate. Dunlap had complained about the state's lack of outdoor exercise facilities at Colorado State Penitentiary. [2] The inmates returned to Colorado State Penitentiary in 2015 after the outdoor access ...
Colorado has had no physical death row since 2011, when the State of Colorado moved its death row prisoners to the Sterling Correctional Facility. [10] This was done in settlement of a federal lawsuit filed by Nathan Dunlap, a death row prisoner who had complained about the adverse effects of his physical and mental health of the state's lack ...
President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “These commutations are ...
He was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder charges and was sentenced to death. [2] In 2013, then-Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper indefinitely delayed Dunlap’s execution. [3] Hickenlooper was expected to order a clemency in his death penalty before his term ended in early 2019 but took no such action. [4]
She was found to be carrying "small bags of methamphetamines on and in her body," according to KKTV. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Jail or Agency: El Paso County Criminal Justice Center; State: Colorado; Date arrested or booked: 5/24/2016; Date of death: 5/26/2016; Age at death: 40; Sources: www.kktv.com
Oklahoma death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith speaks during his clemency hearing March 6. Smith faces execution for two 2002 murders. He claims he is innocent even though he confessed to police.
The bill abolished the death penalty for individuals sentenced after July 1, 2020, and was not retrospective to the three inmates on death row at the time, however, the Governor Jared Polis said "If the state, Republicans and Democrats, were to say, and I were to sign, a bill that said we no longer have the death penalty in Colorado …