- All three people on death row are black men. In a state that is only 4.3% African American, Colorado’s death row is 100% African American.
- All three men on death are from the same one county, out of Colorado’s 64.
- All three men committed their crime when they were under the age of 21.
In Colorado, Blacks Make Up 4 Percent Of The Population And 100 Percent Of Death Row
In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed
after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a
possible veto. A few months later, Colorado’s death penalty is still
firmly in place, and the state is poised to complete what would be only
the second execution in 45 years (the last was in 1997). Few dispute
that Nathan Dunlap committed a horrific crime and murdered several
people at a Chuck E. Cheese. But judges, university professors, and
other prominent state leaders are urging Gov. Hickenlooper
to commute Dunlap’s sentence, both because crucial errors that defined
his trial may have led him to get a harsher sentence than others, and
because killing anyone under the perverted state system would be a
miscarriage of justice. According to letters filed with Hickenlooper’s
office:
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