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Mario Owens

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    February 1, 2012

    Josiah Sher: Death for accused hit man, or just very expensive trial?

    Josiah Sher.​News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn't exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldb ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    How victim rights became a juggernaut shaping spending, laws and the future of punishment

    Josiah Sher.​News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn't exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    DA Carol Chambers under fire for giving witness a car in death-penalty case

    Sir Mario Owens​Attorneys for Sir Mario Owens, sentenced to death for the 2005 murders of Vivian Wolfe and Javad Marshall-Fields, claim that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers and her prosecutors made several unusual deals with witnesses in the secrecy-shrouded case -- includ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Alejandro Perez verdict: A stunning rebuke of Carol Chambers' death-penalty chase?

    Alejandro Perez​Last week's acquittal of Alejandro Perez in the murder of another inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility provides fresh ammo for critics of Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers, whose determination to seek the death penalty for a prison gang homicide has resu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Javad Marshall-Fields/Vivian Wolfe CSU scholarship endowed 5 years after their murders

    Marshall-Fields and Wolfe were engaged.​Rhonda Fields says nothing could ever fill the void left when her son, Javad Marshall-Fields, a material witness in a murder case, was gunned down in Aurora in 2005. But she says Marshall-Fields lives on through a scholarship at CSU, which she struggled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Mile High Murder: Three's hardly a crowd on Colorado death row after Robert Ray's sentence

    Robert Ray. Yesterday, Robert Ray was sentenced to death in connection with the 2005 murders of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancee, Vivian Wolfe -- a verdict that duplicated the one previously given to Ray's accomplice, Sir Mario Owens. The ruling brings the population of Colorado's death row to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Is the death penalty worse than life in the hole?

    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 fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    The Duel for DA Heats Up

    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 fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Death to Sir Mario

    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 fund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    Channel 4 Traffic Expert Hits Different Streets

    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 fund ... More >>

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    Inmates Waitin' Around to Die

    Only one man is on death row, but seven others are waiting in the wings.

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