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Jessica Black quietly cried in the crowd of a packed committee hearing on Monday as lawmakers heard arguments about whether the state should do away with its death penalty.
The mounting effort to repeal and replace Utah's death penalty could be headed for some trouble in the Utah House of Representatives.
Though backers of the bill to repeal and replace Utah’s death penalty include some influential conservative Republican lawmakers and the compelling voice of Sharon Wright Weeks, the sister and aunt of Ron Lafferty’s victims, two of the Utah House’s most powerful legislative leaders say they’re not supportive of doing away with it.
A Republican lawmaker from southern Utah says one woman's experience is part of his motivation to propose HB147, a ban on the death penalty in front of legislators now.
Bryan Stevenson called capital punishment an "obstacle" to public safety in Utah and spoke in support of HB147, a bill that would abolish the death penalty.