The Utah Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment” with language that mirrors the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. However, Article I, Section 9 of the Utah Constitution extends ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Utah filed an amicus brief in the Utah Supreme ... in the carceral system and allow a group of people on the state death row to ...
Does Ralph Leroy Menzies understand he is on Utah’s death row? Can the 66-year-old comprehend ... whether Menzies is mentally competent. The state must argue he is in order for his execution ...
In July, Honie’s attorneys unsuccessfully petitioned the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole to commute his sentence to life in ...
The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has announced they have granted a hearing to death row convict Taberon Honie over whether or not his sentence should be commuted to life in prison. The Utah Board ...