Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Foreword xv
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 3
7. Chapter 2 Hangings in the Nineteenth Century 21
8. Chapter 3 Twentieth-Century Executions and Debates 49
9. Chapter 4 The Thirty-Year Struggle to Obtain Execution No. 103 87
10. Chapter 5 The Death Penalty in Colorado in the Early Twenty-First Century 109
11. Chapter 6 The Hickenlooper Years 135
12. Epilogue Summary, Trends, and Some Future Possibilities 166
13. Appendix 1 Catalog of Colorado Executions, 1859–Present (N = 103) (ordered by date of execution) 183
14. Appendix 2 People Sentenced to Death in Colorado, 1860–December 31, 2015, Not Executed and No Longer on Death Row (ordered by the year that the death sentence was imposed) 245
15. Appendix 3 Colorado Death Sentences: January 1, 1975–December 31, 2015 (N = 23) (ordered by date of offense) 266
16. Index 278