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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Utah. Utah was the first state to resume executions after the 1972–1976 national moratorium on capital punishment ended with Gregg v. Georgia , when Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.
Utah: 8 August 2024 [107] Taberon Dave Honie: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Vermont: 8 December 1954: Donald DeMag: murder: electric chair: A Virginia: 6 July 2017 [108] William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington: 10 September 2010 [109] Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington ...
After Australian child rapist Peter Scully was arrested in February 2015, several Filipino prosecutors called for the death penalty to be reintroduced for violent sexual crimes. [47] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
A 2020 poll found 64 per cent of people in Utah supported the death penalty – 10 per cent higher than the national average, KUTV reported.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
The death penalty is sought in only a fraction of murder cases, and it is often doled out capriciously. The National Academy of Sciences concludes that its role as a deterrent is ambiguous.
Death penalty for homosexuality, sodomy, [113] apostasy [114] (no recorded executions), blasphemy, [115] adultery, murder, aggravated murder, terrorism, torture, rape, armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, arson, accomplice to a death-eligible crime, assaulting a judge or public official in the course of his duties resulting in his death ...