Will Utah Abolish The Death Penalty? On Monday's Access Utah

Utah Public Radio | By Tom Williams

Published March 7, 2016 at 10:47 AM MST

Should Utah abolish the death penalty? Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, says yes. His SB 189 has passed the Utah Senate and now goes to the House as we head into the last week of the 2016 Utah Legislature. Gov. Gary Herbert is among those maintaining support for the death penalty.

We’ll talk about it on Monday’s Access Utah.

Our guests will include Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan; Rep. Stephen Handy, R-Layton; and Salt Lake City attorneys David and Steve Shapiro, whose parents were murdered and who oppose the death penalty.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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