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Valerie Young, a schoolteacher in West Valley City tearfully recalls the day she found out the boys who she believes killed her 16-year-old brother Craig…
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Nine people are on death row in Utah right now. And they could be the last if Republican opposition to the death penalty continues to grow, as a new study…
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After 16 years in the state legislature, Steve Urquhart decided not to run for reelection this year. He recently took a job as a global ambassador with…
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Catholic Church parishioners in Utah are being urged by the Salt Lake City Diocese to join a push to repeal the death penalty in Utah during the next…
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A debate over whether or not to halt the death penalty in Utah ended without lawmakers acting on legislation as time ran out on the last day of the 2016…
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In the next 24 hours the Utah House will debate a bill to repeal the death penalty in Utah, but one lawmaker has a plan to change the bill entirely.Last…
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The full Utah House will get the opportunity to debate repealing the death penalty after a house committee narrowly voted to send it forward.The House Law…
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Week six of the Utah Legislature was full of lawmakers making curious decisions. KUER’s Brian Grimmett has the recap in this week’s View From the…
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The Utah Senate has approved a bill that would repeal the death penalty in the state.Republican Sen. Steve Urquhart says morally, he doesn’t have a…
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A bill doing away with the Death Penalty in Utah has cleared its first hurdle in the Utah Senate.Republican Senator Steve Urquhart says he used to be in…
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Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, says capital punishment makes sense in theory, but its true costs are prompting him to question whether the state…
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A Senate panel was poised Tuesday to begin discussing abolishing the death penalty in Utah.The bill, introduced by Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, SB…