Word: colorado
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...proposed solution is the "guilty-but-mentally-ill" verdict already used in Michigan and Idaho, and under consideration in many other states, including Pennsylvania, Illinois and Colorado. By finding a defendant guilty but mentally ill, a jury declares the defendant, though mentally disturbed, satisfied the legal test for understanding the difference between right and wrong. The verdict sends a signal to the judge that mental treatment should be included in the criminal's sentence. Unlike legally insane offenders, those found guilty but mentally ill complete a mandatory incarceration period; they cannot be released upon recovery from their mental affliction...
...Congressmen. The state's house of representatives, however, switched into Democratic hands, partly because voters blamed Republican members for the cuts in state-run social services, the consequence of reduced federal funds for some domestic programs. Despite the region's Republican leanings, two Democratic Governors were reelected: Colorado's Richard Lamm and Wyoming's Ed Herschler have both been able to balance he requirements of growth and environmental protection, and were helped to third terms because...
BOULDER, Colo.--Students at the University of Colorado recently installed a bust of Alferd E. Packer, recognized as America's only convicted cannibal, in the corridor of a dininghall grill...
Alferd E. Packer, an ex-Union soldier was sentenced to 40 years in the state penitentiary after having been convicted for killing and eating his five companions during an 1874 snowstorm in Colorado; the group had been searching for gold fields...
...year ago Mulcahy became a minor celebrity after the New York Times published an account of his dealings with Wilson and Terpil. He appeared on television news programs and talked to publishers about writing a book. Last fall in Colorado, at the trial of a Wilson associate for attempted murder, Mulcahy became friends with Fort Collins Policeman Ray Martinez...