The Opposite of Woe: on Crime


Changed mind on death penalty, to oppose it as governor

One of the bills that did NOT make it out of that legislative session was an attempt to abolish the death penalty in Colorado. My senior staff helped keep that bill from passing. Make no mistake, I wanted to see the death penalty abolished. I am against the death penalty.

Well, first I was for it. But now I am against it. Some of my detractors have criticized me for saying what I wrote right there.

My views on capital punishment changed as that third legislative session was drawing to a close, when I had to decide whether or not I was going to allow the state to carry out a mass murderer's death sentence. [He decided on an Executive Order to not use the death penalty during his gubernatorial term]. My reasons for not wanting that bill to abolish the death penalty to pass were tied to my thinking about what I would do with that order.

Source: The Opposite of Woe, by John Hickenlooper, p.320-1 May 24, 2016

  • The above quotations are from The Opposite of Woe
    My Life in Beer and Politics
    by John Hickenlooper & Maximillian Potter    .
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