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Gary Lee Davis (August 13, 1944 – October 13, 1997) was an American convicted murderer and rapist who was executed by the U.S. state of Colorado in 1997. He was the only person to be executed by the state of Colorado between 1968 and 2020; when Colorado abolished capital punishment.
The movie Canon City (1948) depicts the real-life 1947 escape of 12 prisoners from nearby Colorado State Penitentiary. [38] A diner in Cañon City is the setting of the song "Navajo Rug", which was named by the Western Writers of America as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. [39]
Luis José Monge (June 21, 1918 – June 2, 1967) was a convicted mass murderer who was executed in the gas chamber at Colorado State Penitentiary in 1967. Monge was the last inmate to be executed before an unofficial moratorium on execution that lasted for more than four years while most death penalty cases were on appeal, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v.
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Death notices for Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and the Yakima Valley ... Tri-City Herald death notices Oct. 29, 2024. Tri-City Herald staff. October 30, 2024 at 5:00 AM. ... The Today Show.
Horton’s death marks the 15th fatality of 2024, nearing the high end of the Grand Canyon's annual average. ... a part of the Canyon near the 137th mile of the Colorado River, according to a news ...
The Colorado Women's Correctional Facility near Cañon City in unincorporated Fremont County was decommissioned on June 4, 2009. [2] [3] Today CSP houses some of Colorado's most dangerous, most violent and most disruptive prisoners. It also held the state's lethal injection chamber for execution of the death penalty.
Cañon City Daily Record is a daily newspaper published in Cañon City, Colorado. It carries local, regional, national and world news. It carries local, regional, national and world news. It is owned by Prairie Mountain Publishing , a subsidiary of MediaNews Group , who purchased the paper in 2011.