One such execution since '88

Rocky Mountain News Staff

Published April 17, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Lethal injection is the sole method in execution in Colorado.

Colorado, one of 37 states that allows the death penalty, has used lethal injection just once since 1988.

Gary Davis was put to death on Oct. 13, 1997, using a lethal cocktail. Before that, executions in Colorado were carried out by hanging or lethal gas.

Only one person, Nathan Dunlap, is currently on death row at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City.

Dunlap, now 33, was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of four people at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant: employees Sylvia Crowell, 19, Benjamin Grant and Colleen O'Connor, both 17, and manager Margaret Kohlberg, 50.

• April 17, 2008

  7:07 a.m.

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  forwhatitis writes:

  So, why is he still alive? And why have there been so few death sentences? We read about so many brutal, vicious crimes in this state every time we turn around, and none of them is on death row?

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