The Utah
Senate voted 20-9 on this week in favor of a Senate Bill 189 to
repeal the death penalty, reported Jurist. The Death Penalty Amendments bill would reorganize
murder and homicide statutes as non
capital offenses and give the prosecutors until May to seek a notice of
capital punishment for any pending case.
The legislation awaits final approval in the senate before
heading to the House of Representatives. Utah is one of more than 30 states
that retains the death penalty, and last year the state approved the use of
death by firing
squad as an alternative to lethal injection.
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