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Campus

Peace at the Table event encourages civility during Thanksgiving dinner

By Christian Salazar
November 26, 2024 10:51 AM
Students learned how to keep the peace for Thanksgiving dinner at the Peace at the Table event held in the Wilkinson Student Center on Nov. 21.
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Nation

Utah conservatives among those fighting to end capital punishment

By Karina Andrew
October 29, 2019 12:00 AM
Darcy Van Orden speaks at an online conference hosted by Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty. (Zoom)
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State

HB379: Controversial bill would eliminate death penalty in Utah

By Jenna Alton
March 02, 2018 12:00 AM
As of 2016, 19 states had abolished the death penalty, mostly concentrated in the northeast states. If passed, HB379 would abolish it in Utah as well. (Haley Mosher)
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Nation

Florida man yells 'murderers!' as he's put to death

By Associated Press
February 23, 2018 12:00 AM
This undated photo made available by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows Eric Scott Branch in custody. Florida executed Branch Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, for raping and killing a college students in 1993 so he could steal her car. (Florida Department of Law Enforcement via AP)
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Local

Utah government chooses firing squad over lethal injections

By Hayden Wise
May 23, 2017 12:00 AM
Lethal injection drugs are scarce, which means Utah will be using its second choice, firing squads, to carry out the death penalty.
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State

Utah to keep the death penalty

By Samantha Forrest
March 14, 2016 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY—A bill that would have added Utah to the list of 19 states that have eliminated the death penalty failed to pass during this year’s legislative session.
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Local

SB189: Senate to consider bill that would end death penalty

By Kalli B White
February 26, 2016 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY -- A bill that would add Utah to the list of 19 states that have ended the death penalty for convicted murderers in Utah is waiting for debate in the Utah Senate.
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Local

Human trafficking death penalty bill moves forward

By Mariana Chrisney
February 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Human traffickers might face Utah's death row if lawmakers pass a bill that will impose the death penalty in aggravated crimes.
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Nation

Holmes jury keeps execution as option as sentencing advances

By Liesl Hansen
August 03, 2015 12:00 AM
James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 more in a shooting spree in a crowded theatre in 2012, sits in Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colo. Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial reached a decision Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, on whether to keep the death penalty as an option for Holmes. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP, Pool, File)
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Nation

Justices uphold use of drug implicated in botched executions

June 29, 2015 12:00 AM
The Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal injection executions Monday, as two dissenting justices said for the first time that they think it's 'highly likely' that the death penalty itself is unconstitutional.
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Nation

Boston Marathon bomber apologizes for the first time

June 24, 2015 12:00 AM
In this Dec. 18, 2014, courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits in federal court in Boston for a final hearing before his trial begins in January.
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Nation

Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death

May 15, 2015 12:00 AM
A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a 'kid' who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.
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Nation

Colo. suspect charged with 24 counts of murder

July 30, 2012 12:00 AM
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.
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State

HB11: Group objects to a Utah return to firing squad executions

January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
Michael A. Cruse
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State

Clearfield lawmaker wants death penalty for child sex traffickers

January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
By Michael A. Kruse
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State

HB11: Lawmaker wants to add firing squad back to Utah death penalty options

January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
By Blakely Gull
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Uncategorized

HB11: Senate up next to hear firing squad bill

January 01, 1970 12:00 AM
by Chris Larson
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