The death penalty doesn’t work.
It’s a public policy that creates more problems than it solves. Capital punishment leads to innocent people being killed. It forces taxpayers to pay for significant costs that don’t actually lead to executions because of lengthy appeals required for due process. And those ongoing appeals re-victimize the traumatized family members for decades.
Those are just a few reasons why several county attorneys in Utah have public advocated for a different solution: repeal and replace the death penalty. And it’s likely why public support for the death penalty in Utah has plummeted by 30% over the past decade.
- Read the proposed bill
- See why being pro-life means being anti-death penalty.
- Read why a 30-year prosecutor in Utah—who worked on capital punishment cases—called the death penalty a “counterfeit promise.”
