'Just Mercy' author urges Utah Legislature to abolish death penalty
Utah is ready to abolish the death penalty, author and activist Bryan Stevenson told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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Utah is ready to abolish the death penalty, author and activist Bryan Stevenson told lawmakers on Wednesday.
A new bill in the Utah Legislature seeks to renew past efforts to eliminate the death penalty in Utah. Will lawmakers support the effort this time?
As an effort to repeal and replace Utah's death penalty continues to gain momentum, a new poll shows most Utahns support keeping the death penalty on Utah's books \u2014 but now by a vastly smaller margin than past surveys have indicated.
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The Utah Legislature has struck down a capital punishment repeal twice before. What's different this time?