Maestas v. People

Following the Colorado Supreme Court's affirmance of his conviction and sentence, Maestas was in fact put to death on May 27th, 1932. He was one of the last men hanged in Colorado; the legislature adopted asphyxiation by gas as the method of execution in 1934.

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