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"Utah bucking U.S. death penalty trend," is Jacob Hancock's report in today's Deseret News.While many states are trading the death penalty for life sentences to save millions in tax dollars, the Utah Attorney General's Office is pushing to strengthen the state's ultimate punishment by limiting the appeals process. "No one gets executed unless they volunteer for it," said Paul Murphy, spokesman for the attorney general's office, about Utah's decades-long appeal process. "It's a legal fiction," he said wryly. The last person Utah executed, Joseph Mitchell Parsons in 1999, waited on death row for only 11 years. But about half of Utah's current 10 death-row inmates have successfully appealed their respective executions for more than 20 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).