Punishment

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments. There,...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis could use his broad powers to commute the sentences of the three men on the state’s death row today. In fact, he could have converted their death sentences to...

The Colorado General Assembly on Wednesday sent a bill to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk eliminating the state’s death penalty, forcing him to decide what comes next for the three men who are on death row...

The deep and emotional tension surrounding a bill to repeal the death penalty in Colorado came alive on the Senate floor in a six-hour debate Thursday. “By having the death penalty in Colorado, we...

Time drags when you’re locked up. “We’re bored,” a woman inmate says to Capt. Ed Aber as he walks by her gray cell with blue trim. She is on the ground peering out the door’s tray slot. “When’s...

DENVER – Democrats who control Colorado’s Legislature acted quickly on a bill to repeal the state’s little-used death penalty, with the Senate Judiciary Committee advancing the legislation just two...

Bernard Young was behind bars for nearly 30 years for a crime he claimed he didn’t commit when his family, in a last ditch effort, called Mancos resident Claudia Whitman. Whitman, who runs the...

DENVER – Senate Democrats were looking to have Colorado join 19 other states that have eliminated the death penalty, but the measure died on a 3-2 party-line vote late Wednesday night. Senate Bill...

Raymond Cain appeared relaxed, reflective and remorseful in a 20-minute video played Thursday in District Court in Durango. In person, he wore shackles and an orange jail-issued jumpsuit. He has a...

WASHINGTON – Is the death penalty in America gradually dying? There have been just two executions since May 1 and the total for 2016 probably will hit a 25-year low. Execution drug shortages,...

BOULDER – A judge sentenced a Colorado woman who cut a baby from a stranger’s womb to 100 years Friday. Judge Maria Berkenkotter said the harshest sentences for the most serious charges were...