Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter poked gentle fun at the unusually large gap between her first day on the job in January 2021 and her public swearing-in nearly 21 months later.
Colorado s Attorney General and Denver s District Attorney are among those calling for the change. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 12:01 PM MST January 26, 2021
DENVER Several criminal justice leaders in Colorado joined dozens of others from across the country to call on the Biden administration to end the federal death penalty.
A bipartisan group of nearly 100 criminal justice leaders on Monday sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to take all actions within their power to immediately and definitively end the death penalty in the United States.
“I do not believe the government should be in the business of executing people,” said Denver DA Beth McCann. “The death penalty is unnecessary to protect public safety, costly, arbitrary and tinged with racial bias. Colorado did away with the death penalty last year and it is now time for the federal government to do the same which is why I am