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Senate narrowly passes prospective repeal of death penalty, replacing it with life without parole
Summary
After extended floor debate, the Senate passed SB 189 on March 2, 2016, a prospective repeal of capital punishment that would replace it with life without the possibility of parole. Sponsor cited cost, lengthy appeals and risk of wrongful convictions; final tally was 15 yeas, 12 nays and 2 absent.
After more than an hour of extended floor remarks for and against, the Utah Senate passed SB 189, a prospective repeal of the state's death-penalty statute that would substitute life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Senator Carter, who introduced the proposal on the floor, framed the change on fiscal and moral grounds, saying the state pays "an extra $1,600,000 to execute" and that…
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