Utah legislature to consider 'repeal and replace' of death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Instead, it would "repeal and replace" the death penalty.
42% : A federal appeals court recently reinstated the death penalty sentence for Von Lester Taylor.
41% : A bill to abolish the death penalty in Utah has been unveiled on Capitol Hill.
41% : Instead of execution, Utah would offer 45-years-to-life in prison, in addition to life without parole and 25-years-to-life in prison that are currently on the books.
40% : "The problem with the death penalty today is we have not been able to get it accomplished," Rep. Snow said, noting that legal appeals can last decades and some relatives of murder victims have died still waiting for a death sentence to be carried out.
38% : (Utah has firing squad as the default method of execution when lethal injection is unavailable and the Department of Corrections has said it does not have the necessary drugs to carry out a lethal injection execution.)
37% : Previous efforts to repeal capital punishment have been introduced in the Utah State Legislature and failed.
33% : The forthcoming legislation, sponsored by Rep. Lowry Snow and Sen. Dan McCay, would not be a flat-out repeal of capital punishment.

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