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Year of Reenactment
(since 1972 suspension) |
1975 | |
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Year of First Execution
(since reenactment) |
1997 | |
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History
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1868-1896: hanging |
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Current Method
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Lethal injection | |
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Colorado has life without parole. A jury decides the sentence. The Governor is fully authorized when he or she deems it proper and consistent with the public interest and the rights of the condemned to commute the sentence in any case by reducing the sentence to life imprisonment or a term of not less than 20 years of hard labor.
Colorado has one of the better systems of legal representation, a small death row and only one execution since re-enactment.