Two years ago this week, Brandy DuVall was killed by members of the Deuce-Seven gang. For the past month, the courts have been deciding whether her murderers live or die.
Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent funding a statewide unit to investigate the 1,400 unsolved murders in Colorado over the past forty years.For more on the basic "trade vengeance for justice" argument, see Jessica Centers' 2008 feature "A
​Bob Weir & Ratdog
Sunday, August 30
Chautauqua Auditorium
Better Than: Parts of the reunited Dead's performance in Denver a few months ago
For those of us who were introduced to the Grateful Dead as elementary
school kids in the late-1980s by the San Francisco band's ubiquitous
MTV hit "Touch of Grey," here's some news: a white-bearded member of
that polarizing '60s group is still traveling the country singing
"Touch of Grey" for ecstatic audiences, but it isn't the late Jerry
Garcia. It
