anyone since the late 1960s, but support for dunlap s death sentence was overwhelming. the death penalty. no doubt in my mind. mr. dunlap should be allowed to come out of the penitentiary only in a pine box. he took lives that he was not entitled to take. not for self-defense. not for self-preservation. nothing. this man is a mass murderer. and he deserves death. for 20 years as dunlap appealed his death sentence, violence continued to strike colorado. masked gunman walked into columbine high school. shooting at century theaters. they re saying somebody is shooting in the auditorium. and cries for vengeance increased. too many criminals. time all of them die. kill all of them, colorado. that will take care of all this crap. in 2013, nathan dunlap s execution ordered landed on the desk of governor john hickenlooper and in an odd twist of fate, the governor s own
august of 2013. now, dunlap s last effort to save his life is in asking the governor of the state of colorado for clemency. in 2010, governor john hickenlooper jr., the popular former mayor of denver, had won the governor s seat in commanding fashion. this clemency appeal arrives on john hickenlooper s desk as the last hope for nathan dunlap s life. with eyes across the nation watching colorado, governor hickenlooper would be forced to decide whether nathan dunlap should live or die. towards the promise of a better existence. but these birds are suffering. because this better place turned out to have an unreliable cell phone network, and the videos on their little bird phones kept buffering. birds hate that. so they came back home. because they get $300 for switching back to verizon.
we happen to have three african-american men who are on death row for the same thing. cold-blooded murder. and in my view, it has nothing to do with race. it has everything to do about murder. over the next few years, rhonda fields would continue to be an important voice in favor of capital punishment. especially because the dunlap case was about to remerge in the headlines. after nearly 20 years of court proceedings, nathan s defense team was running out of options. in 2012, the tenth circuit court rejected his final appeal, and a year later, the supreme court refused to hear his case. district attorney, george brauchler, now in charge of the case took decisive action. we set an execution state for
during the time rhonda was pushing for death for her son s killers, nathan dunlap continued to work on his appeals. this was not a chance to proof that he was innocent, to set dunlap free. the focus was on his mental health and any other mitigating factors that could have gone into a jury s decision about whether he should be put to death. nathan dunlap s attorneys make a pretty powerful case about bipolarity saying this was not properly explored. in the original case. by 2006, prison doctors had finally diagnosed nathan as bipolar and put him on the powerful drug, lithium. once medicated, nathan s behavior on death row changed radically, and he became a model prisoner. he was an entirely different person from the young man even that i knew.
to be honest with you, the only words that could come out of my mouth was oh [ bleep ], and he raised the gun and he shot at me. the bullet hit bobby in the jaw. he fell to the floor. as he stood there, i was actually expecting for me to be shot again and that would be the end of it, but i played dead. i held as still as i possibly could be and it actually worked. he walked on and i got up and i ran out the kitchen. dunlap entered the office where he forced marge kohlberg to unlock the safe. after it was open, he shot marge in the ear. as he is gathering the cash, he notices marge is still moving. bobby stephens, covered with blood, stumbled through the dining room and fled through a side door in search for help. all i saw was a patio light. i stumbled along the way, but i