Attorneys for Colorado death row inmate Nathan Dunlap filed a petition for executive clemency on May 6, 2013. This petition asks Governor John Hickenlooper to commute Mr. Dunlap's death sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The petition and supporting materials, including more than 20 letters in support of Mr. Dunlap's clemency request from hundreds of former judges and prosecutors, faith leaders, civil rights activists, international human rights organizations, academics, and mental health advocates, and ordinary citizens, are now available here.
Please direct all questions regarding this topic to: madeline.cohen@fd.org
Executive Order Granting Indefinite Stay of Execution
Clemency Petition
Selected Supporting Materials
- Affidavit of Juror C
- Affidavit of Juror T
- Affidavit of Juror U
- Photographs
- Letter from Linda Metsger, March 5, 2013
- Michael Radelet memorandum re especially aggravated murders, March 5, 2013
- Colorado Death Penalty Eligibility Study, September 9, 2012
- Testimony of Lindy Frolich in support of HB 13-1264, March 19, 2013
- Final Fiscal Note, HB 09-1274, June 30, 2009
- Compilation of Colorado Opinion-Editorial Coverage, Dec 2012 - April 2013
- Letter from Frank Thompson, retired Assistant Director of Institutions
Letters in Support of Clemency
- Letter from 13 retired judges
- Letter from retired Judge Douglas Anderson
- Letter from retired judge Donald Campbell
- Letter from Richard Bloch, former Assistant D.A., 18th Judicial District
- Letter from former prosecutors
- Letter from Edward N. Barad
- Letter from Colorado Council of Churches
- Letter from 18 Colorado rabbis
- Letter from Mountain View Friends Meeting
- Letter from Rocky Mtn Synod, Lutheran Evangical Church in America
- Letter from Catholic Archdiocese of Denver
- Letter from Rev. Patrick Demmer, Graham Memorial Comm. Church of God
- Letter from Colorado Montana Wyoming Conference, NAACP
- Letter from Colorado Latino Forum
- Letter from 75 Colorado academics
- Letter from International Commission Against the Death Penalty
- Letter from American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado
- Letter from National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Letter from Adinea Dunlap Ashlock (sister)
- Letter from Steve Gayle (second-chair trial counsel)
- Letter from Mary Lynn Sheetz (friend)
- Letter from Laura Spiller (friend)
- Letter from Gail Johnson (prison-conditions attorney)
Additional Statements of Support Since Clemency Filing
- Compilation of letters to the editor (March-May 2013)
- Letter from the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado (May 17, 2013)
- Rector Mary Kate Rejouis letter (May 16, 2013)
- Dr. McIntyre commentary on DA rebuttal (May 12, 2013)
- Michael Radelet letter (May 12, 2013)
- Denver Post Editorial - ...Clemency? Yes. (May 12, 2013)
- Daily Camera Op-Ed - Faith directs us to support clemency for Nathan Dunlap (May 12, 2013)
- Bill Thiebaut letter (May 9, 2013)
- Aurora Sentinel Editorial - Dunlap's Death Sentence Can't Lurk in the Shadows of Doubt (May 9, 2013)
- Colorado Criminal Defense Bar letter (May 8, 2013)
- Daily Camera Editorial - Clemency for Nathan Dunlap (May 5, 2013)
