Aspen Democrat-Times, April 12, 1919 In March 2019, Colorado lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 19-182, which would have abolished capital punishment in the state. Just one month later, the bill was already dead, for another year anyway. But that's only the most recent chapter in the fraught history of the death penalty in Colorado. The death …
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Herald Democrat, April 9, 1919 Nancy Jane BushFrom Montrose Daily Press, February 1, 1919 The Soap Kettle Murders, as this double homicide was dubbed by the Montrose Daily Press, took place on December 15, 1917, at the home of Nancy Jane Bush and her son, John O. Bush, a few miles west of Olathe, CO. …
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Herald Democrat, April 2, 1919 The first time I read the name, Eugene V. Debs, I thought it was a famous trial that I'd never heard of, and I started wondering, 'who is this Mr./Mrs. Eugene and what was their beef against Debs?' I think I need to read more books. Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), …
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