Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last ...

As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open ...

Prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing two Tremonton-Garland police ...

Ralph Menzies has vascular dementia. His lawyers say let him fade away. The victim's family says: execute him. Utah's parole ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he found the death penalty appropriate for the suspect accused of shooting and killing two ...

With his execution approaching, attorneys for death row inmate Ralph Menzies made what could be one of their final pleas for ...

Current Statistics Death Row Population: As of 2024, Utah has 7 inmates on death row Executions Since 1976: The state has carried out 7 executions since the reinstatement of the death penalty.

If it wins approval, HB147 would repeal Utah's death penalty and replace it with a new law — one that would give prosecutors a new bargaining chip in its place in their pursuit of plea deals: a ...

Joining us in the studio tonight to talk about the future of the death penalty here in this state, we have Andrew Peterson, assistant attorney with the Utah Attorney General's Office, Marina Lowe ...

Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said he's troubled by looking at justice from a budget. He argued that the law does not compel any county attorney to apply the death penalty.

When lawmakers considered abolishing Utah’s death penalty system in 2016, Rep. Gage Froerer was against the legislation. Two years later, the Republican lawmaker from Huntsville has changed his ...

Debate over Utah’s death penalty is intensifying in 2nd District Court as attorneys prepare for the trial of an Ogden couple accused of starving and fatally abusing their 3-year-old daughter.