| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) |
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Timberline book |
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Timberline books.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- Colorado -- History
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Colorado -- History
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Executions and executioners -- Colorado
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Capital punishment
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Executions and executioners
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Colorado
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781607325123 |
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1607325128 |
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