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May 23, 2013

Questioning Death Penalty, Colorado Governor Grants Reprieve to Prisoner Set for Execution 
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has stayed the execution of a death row
prisoner by citing moral concerns about the death penalty. On Wednesday,
Hickenlooper announced a temporary reprieve for Nathan Dunlap,
Colorado's longest-serving death row inmate. Dunlap was scheduled for
execution in August for a 1996 quadruple murder. In a statement,
Hickenlooper said: "It is a legitimate question whether we as a state
should be taking lives. Because the question is about the use of the
death penalty itself, and not about [Dunlap], I have opted to grant a
reprieve and not clemency in this case."

 

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