Utah has had its share of "famous" executions. In Wallas Wilkerson was executed after his case became the first one heard on appeal by the U. Supreme Court challenging execution as "cruel and unusual punishment. In John Deering allowed his heart beat to be monitored while he was being executed by firing squad.
His execution renewed the capital punishment process that continues to this day. Under more strict guidelines from the Supreme Court, capital punishment laws and procedures were reinstituted and death rows began again to fill.
See: L. Disclaimer: Information on this site was converted from a hard cover book published by University of Utah Press in The state used gunmen to execute Gary Gilmore in , the first inmate put to death after the Supreme Court lifted a five-year moratorium on capital punishment. And now, state legislators are looking to make it the default practice if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
On Wednesday, the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee voted in approving legislation that would bring back firing squads in executions. The bill, which will likely head to the full legislature early next year, would mandate a court hearing prior to an execution, in which a judge would determine whether the state had sufficient drugs to carry out lethal injection.
If the judge ruled that drugs were lacking, a firing squad would be mandated; according to the Salt Lake Tribune , State Rep. For Educators. Fact Sheet. State And Federal Info Utah.
Famous Cases Ronnie Lee Gardner became the third person in the modern era to be executed by firing squad on June 18, Taylor was convicted for shooting and killing a mother and daughter in a vacant Summit County cabin on Dec.
Taylor in won an appeal to overturn his death sentence , but in July landed back on death row when the 10th Circuit of Appeals upheld his original convictions of two counts of capital murder. On Dec. Not long after, Kay Tiede and her mother, Beth Potts, a blind and partially handicapped Murray woman, arrived at the cabin and walked in on the two men. Within minutes, the women were shot multiple times and killed.
He was then doused with gasoline as he pretended to be dead, but he survived the attack. The two men were arrested following a high-speed chase with police. The fatal shots were actually fired by Deli, the courts ruled. Because of that, his conviction was overturned in Deli was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Menzies was convicted of kidnapping a female gas station attendant, strangling her, slitting her throat and leaving her body in a canyon.
On Feb. Hunsaker called her husband that night and told him she had been abducted and robbed but was expecting to be let go. Her body was found two days later near the Storm Mountain picnic area, where she was tied to a tree and her throat had been slashed. In , the Utah Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Menzies. Lovell was convicted of murdering Joyce Yost, of South Ogden, in to prevent her from testifying against him on charges that he had raped her.
That year, Lovell, of Clearfield, was charged in the abduction and rape of Yost. While out on bond pending trial, he tried to hire two people to kill her.
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