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Utah Senate narrowly passes death penalty repeal
Associated Press ^
| Mar. 2, 2016 5:40 PM EST
| Michelle L. Price
Posted on 03/02/2016 2:51:25 PM PST by 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. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; deathpenalty; rino; steveurquhart
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:51:25 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:52:17 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Interesting times. Someday, around the cave campfire, knapping flints, we'll all laugh about this.)
To: Olog-hai
Sen. Steve Urquhart, a RepublicanA Republican, and a traitorous wretch.
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:54:04 PM PST
by
dware
(Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:54:15 PM PST
by
GraceG
(The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
To: Psalm 144
...knapping flints...You teaching, because I want to learn how!
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:54:56 PM PST
by
dware
(Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
To: Olog-hai; dware; MeganC
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:55:15 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(I think it is obvious, feminism stops where Islam begins.)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:55:21 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: dware
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.
:-)
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posted on
03/02/2016 2:58:28 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Interesting times. Someday, around the cave campfire, knapping flints, we'll all laugh about this.)
To: dware
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:09:57 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Olog-hai
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."
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:13:02 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
("There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to keep and a time to cast away.")
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:13:10 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(A plague o' both your houses.)
To: KC_Lion
Tie a Cinder Block to their Feet and Toss them in The Great Salt Lake! Excellent idea!
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:17:22 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
("There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to keep and a time to cast away.")
To: Mr Apple
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:19:57 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
What are the Odds of a VETO?
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:21:29 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Olog-hai
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
That is an excellent quote. I like that one!
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:27:24 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
("There is a time to be born and a time to die. A time to keep and a time to cast away.")
To: Olog-hai
Romney must be twisting arms
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posted on
03/02/2016 3:41:26 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(My first choice is Trump)
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posted on
03/02/2016 4:31:35 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 7:04:53 PM PST
by
BobL
(A vote for Cruz is now...a vote for Romney (at the convention))
To: BobL
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.
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posted on
03/02/2016 7:21:45 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
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