{"id":17902,"date":"2013-05-21T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:55:52","slug":"in-colorado-blacks-make-up-4-percent-of-the-population-and-100-percent-of-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/05\/in-colorado-blacks-make-up-4-percent-of-the-population-and-100-percent-of-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"In Colorado, Blacks Make Up 4 Percent Of The Population And 100 Percent Of Death Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"death-penalty3-300x220\"<\/a>By<\/span>\u00a0Nicole Flatow<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In March, Colorado came close to<\/span>\u00a0becoming the 19th state<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to abolish the death penalty, but the<\/span>\u00a0bill failed<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto. A few months later, Colorado\u2019s 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\u00a0<\/span>urging Gov. Hickenlooper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to commute Dunlap\u2019s 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\u2019s office:<\/span><\/p>\n