Brief by Central Staff
Alfred Packer – May 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
He did the time, but not for that crime
One Cañon City tourist attraction has a catchy slogan: “Do Time with Us.”
Complete with a gas chamber where 32 men were executed, the Colorado Territorial Prison Museum also offers “the actual hangman’s noose of the last man executed by hanging in the state of Colorado, confiscated inmate weapons and contraband … displays of disciplinary paraphernalia used from 1871 to present.”