The result of the hotly contested gubernatorial election in Colorado couldn’t mean more to one man: Nathan Dunlap, a convicted murderer who has been on death row in the state for almost 20 years.
In 1996, Dunlap was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of four employees at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora, Colorado. Dunlap had worked with the victims at the restaurant prior to the incident.
Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who came into office in 2010 as a pro-death penalty candidate, stayed Dunlap’s execution in 2013. Hickenlooper said that Dunlap’s bipolar disorder and the cost of state executions helped him decide to grant the reprieve.
The stay was temporary, however, leaving the issue open for a potential successor to order Dunlap’s death at a later date.
That’s exactly what Republican challenger Bob Beauprez has said he intends to do.
“When I’m governor, Nathan Dunlap will be executed,” Beauprez said during a May GOP primary debate.
During a recent interview with CNN over the Dunlap case, Hickenlooper suggested that he could grant the convicted killer full clemency before he leaves office.
“If that becomes a political issue, in that context within a campaign, obviously there’s a period of time between the election and, and the end of the year where individuals can make decisions… I could give it a full clemency,” he said.
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