Colorado's new system of death sentencing using a three-judge...

Colorado's new system of death sentencing using a three-judge panel instead of a jury faced its first case in 1999. On April 16, the judges handed down a life sentence for 39-year-old Robert Riggan, convicted of the 1997 rape-slaying of a prostitute in Jefferson County. But on May 28, the judges in Jefferson County ordered Francisco Martinez executed for the 1997 rape, torture and murder of a 14-year-old boy.