There has been so much news, way too much news, in the dying days of the Trump presidency that I’m afraid you might have missed an important one — Donald Trump’s killing spree. This is not like the bogus right-wing accusation — raise your hand if you remember the infamous Jerry Falwell-distributed film — that […]
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Posted inBook Excerpts, SunLit
A genre-defying memoir calls on history, science and gripping narrative in a meditation on grief
Sarah Adleman was born and raised between the bayous of Houston, the swamps of Louisiana, and the desert of El Paso. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangladesh, studied yoga in India, and taught English in China. Sarah earned her MFA from the University of Texas at El Paso and works as a Yoga […]
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Colorado law mandates which drugs be used for lethal injection. So what happens when they are no longer made?
Since the state’s last execution more than 20 years ago, Colorado juries have mulled capital punishment, and advocates on both sides have debated the merits of its deterrent effect, its morality, its cost and any number of factors related to its application. But amid nationwide controversy surrounding availability of drugs used for lethal injection, one […]
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In 1997, Colorado’s first execution in 30 years marked a watershed moment. But did it change the conversation about capital punishment?
In the course of Colorado’s long conversation about capital punishment, the execution of Gary Lee Davis in 1997 would seem to be a significant mile marker on the road to resolving a question that has long divided the state’s residents. It had been 30 years since the state executed Luis Monge in the gas chamber, […]