Awaiting execution: Utah's 7 death row inmates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : It would only prohibit the state from seeking the death penalty for aggravated murder committed after May 4, 2022 -- unless the state files a notice of intent to seek the death penalty before that date.
42% : The Utah Legislature in 2004 eliminated the firing squad as a method of execution, but that changed in 2015 when the state lawmakers again rewrote the law to allow the firing squad if lethal injection drugs are not an available option.
42% : He was later resentenced on Jan. 27, 1992, after a jury upheld the death penalty.
40% : While momentum is building behind an effort to repeal and replace Utah's death penalty in the Utah Legislature's 2022 general session set for January, that bill as currently drafted would not affect the inmates currently awaiting execution.

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