In ​“Capital Punishment in Colorado: 1859 – 1972,” University of Colorado pro­fes­sor and death penal­ty expert Michael Radelet reviews the his­to­ry of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Colorado. In the arti­cle, Radelet reviews each of the state’s exe­cu­tions dur­ing that time peri­od and uses the data to show gen­er­al pat­terns regard­ing the aver­age time between con­vic­tion and exe­cu­tion, types of crimes and num­ber of vic­tims, and the logis­tics of car­ry­ing out the exe­cu­tions. 74 University of Colorado Law Review 885 (2003). See Resources.

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