Chuck E. Cheese killer, who killed four employees in one of the chain's locations in 1993 in, will likely face execution after several failed appeals during the 20 years he has been on death-row.
Nathan Dunlap, now 37, gunned down four employees in one of the chain's locations in the state. Victims Sylvia Crowell, 19, Benjamin Grant, 17, Margaret Kohlberg, 50 and Colleen O'Connor, 17, died at the scene of gunshot wounds, but a fifth victim, Bobby Stephens, survived the massacre and positively identified Dunlap as the shooter.
Almost 20 years later, Colorado's longest-serving death-row inmate saw his last, best chance to avoid execution thwarted by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision came Tuesday morning, when a list of unsigned orders revealed that Dunlap's case will not be heard by the country's highest court.
The state's last execution was in 1997 when Gary Lee Davis was put to death for his conviction in a 1986 slaying. Before that, Colorado had gone 30 years since its last execution, in part because of a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision that led to a moratorium on the death penalty.
