DENVER—The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the death sentence appeal of Nathan Dunlap, who killed four people at a Colorado Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993.
Dunlap is Colorado’s longest-serving death-row inmate, and could become the first inmate executed in the state since 1997.
According to the Denver Post ( ), the ruling ends the last appeal Dunlap is guaranteed under the law. Dunlap may file further appeals, but they are not certain to delay his execution.
One of Dunlap’s attorneys, Phil Cherner, said it would be “unconscionable” for the state to carry out the death sentence against him “given what we know about the unfair and disproportionate use of capital punishment in Colorado.” He said Dunlap should spend the rest of his life in prison without parole.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
