 As his death was the first execution carried out by the state of Colorado in approximately three decades, the event was subject to intense media coverage; about 200 anti-death-penalty protesters gathered outside the prison as Davis was executed, as did a smaller group of death penalty supporters., Davis remains the only prisoner executed in the state of Colorado since 1967; his execution was the 417th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.Davis' wife, Rebecca Fincham, died in prison in 2008 while serving a life sentence for May's murder.