Utah Senate narrowly passes death penalty repeal

Associated Press ^ | Mar. 2, 2016 5:40 PM EST | Michelle L. Price

[Olog-hai]

Utah senators on Wednesday voted to abolish the death penalty, advancing what had been considered a longshot proposal in the conservative state.

The measure marks a stunning turn in Utah, where a year ago lawmakers voted to reinstate the use of the firing squad as a backup execution method. Lawmakers argued last year that if the state has a shortage of lethal injection drugs, it must still find a way to kill death row inmates.

Sen. Steve Urquhart, a Republican, is leading the push this year to repeal capital punishment, citing conservative themes of imperfect governments and capital punishment as a costly and inefficient policy.

"We're going to pass it," Urquhart told reporters Wednesday. ...

[Psalm 144]

I’m surprised by this.

[dware]

Sen. Steve Urquhart, a Republican

A Republican, and a traitorous wretch.

[GraceG]

We save the Guilty from Death, but Murder the innocent every day in “Women’s Health Centers”.....

Someone asked me why conservatives will execute a criminal but won’t support abortion... I told them, “does a unborn baby ever get a trial due to commiting a grievous life ending crime against someone” ?

That shut them up.

[dware]

...knapping flints...

You teaching, because I want to learn how!

[KC_Lion]

Lawmakers argued last year that if the state has a shortage of lethal injection drugs, it must still find a way to kill death row inmates.

How hard is this?

Tie a Cinder Block to their Feet and Toss them in The Great Salt Lake!

Geez.

[Jeff Head]

So, it got through a senate committee...but I believe it will be DOA in the Utah House.

And beyond that, I believe the Governor who has stated he is a strong advocate of capital punishment, would veto it anyway.

A lot of whoopla...but I do not see it surviving. I would be shocked if it did.

[Psalm 144]

No, but I know a guy who does. I’d look it up on youtube unless central Louisiana is close. In that case I could hook you up with the guy.

:-)

[bgill]

It’s easy. Taught my spec ed class to make spears. Oh, no! Weapons in the classroom!!!!!! Of course, that was nearly 10 years ago.

[Mr Apple]

Sen. Steve Urquhart, a Republican, is leading the push this year to repeal capital punishment...

So, this delusional fool Urquhart does not see fit that murderers and rapist be executed.

I say the law should not change and in fact, before the firiing squad takes aim, that Urquhart himself -should be mandated to say to each murderer or rapist the following:

"There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to keep and a time to cast away."

[NorthMountain]

the state has a shortage of lethal injection drugs, it must still find a way to kill death row inmates.

I continue to find this baffling. Pure dry nitrogen is dirt cheap, available from your local welding supply or industrial gas outlet, and absolutely lethal when inhaled for an extended time.

[Mr Apple]

Tie a Cinder Block to their Feet and Toss them in The Great Salt Lake!

Excellent idea!

[Olog-hai]

What’s that Adam Smith quote? “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” The Uniparty is upping the crises in order to up-end the Constitution altogether.

[SandRat]

What are the Odds of a VETO?

[Mr Apple]

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

That is an excellent quote. I like that one!

[stocksthatgoup]

Romney must be twisting arms

[DoughtyOne]

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[BobL]

I think the BOTTOM LINE is that conservatives simply have a SHELF LIFE before they get corrupted by the left.

OBVIOUSLY a bunch of conservatives had BADLY over-ripened in Utah.

[Olog-hai]

That’s what the left likes to think; that nobody on the right has any character. Reagan’s maxim about freedom being just one generation away from extinction was no joke.