Lawmakers will make another run at abolishing Utah's death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "There's a big gap between 25-to-life and life without parole, especially if you're talking about a young offender.
46% : In 2019, the average time between a death sentence and execution in the United States was 22 years, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
43% : Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Santa Clara, will sponsor a bill in the 2022 session to abolish the death penalty in Utah.
42% : For a third time in recent years, lawmakers will try to abolish the death penalty in Utah.
42% : Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian Libertas Institute, says the 45-year sentence is a good substitute for the death penalty.
41% : Snow says Lafferty's sister, Sharon Weeks, has become an advocate for abolishing the death penalty because the state was unable to deliver the justice that Ron Lafferty's sentence promised them.
39% : Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Santa Clara, says he used to support capital punishment but changed his mind after speaking with the sister of Brenda Lafferty, who was murdered by Ron and Dan Lafferty in 1984.
37% : Utah is one of 28 states that authorize capital punishment.
36% : This is the third push to get rid of Utah's use of the death penalty in recent years.
28% : Gov. Spencer Cox's office did not respond when asked whether he would support removing the death penalty.

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