Monday, February 14, 2022

UTAH’S DEATH PENALTY IS RETAINED [FEBRUARY 14, 2022]

 

Memorial services planned for Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell

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If the criminal taking of a human life does not merit forfeiture of one's own life, then what value have we placed on the life taken? - Pat Buchanan

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Article: http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2015/11/scalia-v-pope-whos-right-on-death.html

 

            We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, send our utmost thanks to the murder victims’ families, Senators and the attorneys for retaining the death penalty in Utah. We urge you not to stop fighting and continue to save capital punishment in that state.

   

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! – Rock Balboa

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            We will post an article co-authored by Tom Bucker and Andrew Peterson. We will also want to present the victim’s families who fought to retain it.

Opinion: This is no time to repeal the death penalty

Arguments against capital punishment don’t grapple with two critical issues: whether it is wise to spare killers who have proven that they pose a continuing threat and whether a punishment less than death will be true justice for every murder.

Death penalty opponents are taking another run at repeal. But Utah has reserved the death penalty for the worst of the worst. For them, sentences less than death fall short of assuring public safety and achieving true justice.

As in the past, death penalty opponents say it isn’t a deterrent, is too expensive, takes too long and may result in executing an innocent person. But these arguments don’t grapple with two critical issues: whether it is wise to spare killers who have proven that they pose a continuing threat and whether a punishment less than death will be true justice for every murder.

It is particularly ill-advised to repeal the death penalty for those who kill while in prison, while on escape, or while attempting to escape. A life sentence means they will pose a continuing threat to inmates who have a right to serve their sentences in safety, corrections officers, law enforcement and the general public if they escape or kill while trying to escape.

Ronnie Gardner, for example, murdered someone during an escape from a courthouse. He was there for a hearing on yet another murder charge for a murder he committed while on a prior escape. And Troy Kell stabbed a fellow inmate 67 times, including nine times in the eyes, in a murder motived by racial hatred. The murder occurred in a maximum security unit.

On the issue of whether something less than death will always be true justice, the Supreme Court recognizes that a death sentence allows society to express its “moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct,” and that it “is essential in an ordered society that asks its citizens to rely on legal processes rather than self-help to vindicate their wrongs.”

Those sentenced to death in Utah exemplify this “moral outrage” justification. In addition, to those who have killed while in prison or trying to escape, the killers on Utah’s death row did one or more of the following: tortured their victims; raped their victims; kidnapped their victims; killed their victims in their own homes; or killed their victims to keep them from testifying about the other crimes perpetrated against them. They mostly targeted victims who were extremely vulnerable. And most had very lengthy criminal histories.

The arguments against the death penalty don’t address these public safety or proportional justice issues. And under scrutiny, the repeal arguments lack sufficient weight to counter them.

First, death penalty opponents often say that the death penalty has been proven not to be a deterrent. But to paraphrase one commentator: If we have the death penalty and it actually is not a deterrent, then we will have executed murderers. But if we don’t have the death penalty and it actually does have some deterrent effect, we will have condoned the killing of innocent people.

Further, the National Research Council — an arm of the National Academy of Sciences — has cautioned policymakers not to rely on deterrence to decide whether to retain or repeal the death penalty because the science on whether it is a deterrent simply isn’t there. And the studies relied on to claim that it isn’t a deterrent are really saying that there is no statistically significant deterrence. They can’t prove that it has never deterred any murders.

Second, opponents argue that repeal will result in significant savings in cost and time. But those arguments ignore the realities of Utah’s use of the death penalty. When viewed in that context, there will likely be no savings and a high potential for cost and delay increases.

The proposed repeal purports to leave existing capital cases unaffected. Those cases will immediately see increased costs and delay (causing more pain for the surviving family members) while the killers litigate a new issue about whether they have a constitutional right to have their death sentences vacated under the general repeal. If the state wins those arguments, the cases will then have to pick up where they left off and run their full, but delayed, course.

Based on Utah trends, repeal is unlikely to save money and time even after those cases conclude. There hasn’t been a new death sentence in Utah in 14 years. Prohibiting a sentence so rarely imposed will not produce the savings touted by death penalty opponents. Rather, it is more likely to increase cost and delay in aggravated-murder litigation because no one will ever again plead guilty and agree to life-without-parole sentences. Expensive trials and appeals will become the norm for many murderers who currently plead guilty.

And if the death penalty does deter some murders, what is the value of each life saved because the would-be killer feared a death sentence? Are the minimal or nonexistent savings worth putting innocent Utahns at risk?

While opponents often raise the specter of executing an innocent person, in Utah, it is just that — a specter. No person sentenced to death in Utah has been found to be innocent. While that risk can never be eliminated, it approaches zero in Utah due to Utah’s exacting standard for getting a death sentence in the first place.

In short, Utah has reserved the death penalty for the worst of the worst. And in those cases, sentences less than death either create continuing threat, under-punish for the horrific crimes committed, or both.

Tom Brunker is the deputy solicitor general, criminal appeals, for Utah. Andrew Peterson is Utah’s assistant solicitor general.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/2/14/22929748/utah-death-penalty-oppose-capital-punishment-killers

  

 

Jessica Black, mother of murdered Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, is consoled as Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Santa Clara, presents HB0147 Death Penalty Modifications during a House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee in the House Building in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Gruesome murders relived before Utah committee axes death penalty repeal

‘Monsters’ deserve the death penalty, murder victims’ families tell Utah lawmakers

Jessica Black quietly cried in the crowd of a packed committee hearing on Monday as lawmakers heard arguments about whether the state should do away with its death penalty.

Black is the mother of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, a 5-year-old Utah girl who was raped and murdered by her uncle in 2019. For the crime, Alexander William Whipple was sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, after he disclosed where her body was in exchange for prosecutors agreeing not to seek the death penalty. Police found Lizzy’s remains a half block away from her home, covered by dirt, sticks and other debris, bringing a five-day search to an end.

When it was her time to talk, Black struggled to speak through her tears.

“There are monsters in the world that should never be out of prison,” she said. “Having the death penalty allowed us to find our daughter and put the monster in prison for the rest of his life.”

The effort to repeal and replace Utah’s death penalty faltered at its first legislative hurdle on Monday following nearly three hours of emotional, tearful and at times brutally graphic testimony.

The bill, HB147, has hit a dead end. It failed to advance out of the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee after a motion to forward it to the full House of Representatives was thwarted on a narrow 5-6 vote.

The split vote came after victims of murdered family members from both sides of the debate lined up to give heartfelt remarks about why they did or didn’t support keeping Utah’s death penalty in place.

‘Fix the death penalty’ 

Among those who spoke in favor of HB147 was Sharon Wright Weeks, the sister and aunt of Ron Lafferty’s victims, who helped propel the bill before the 2022 Utah Legislature with her belief that the death penalty is a false promise of justice — how even though she desperately wanted Lafferty to die by execution, over 30 years of appeals continued to “re-traumatize” her and her family until he eventually died of natural causes at the age of 78.

Is Utah’s death penalty on death row?

But there was also Lizzy’s grandfather, Norman Black. 

“The things that he did to my granddaughter were unspeakable. They were heinous. They were awful. They were absolute evil,” Norman Black said. “Having that death penalty on the table was instrumental in us finding her body. It spared us from having a prolonged trial and therefore a prolonged anguish that we didn’t have to go through that some other of these victims have.”  “Fix the death penalty if you have to,” Norman Black urged lawmakers. Instead of just “throwing away the death penalty, perhaps you ought to look at ways to fix it.” 

Though death penalty detractors warned lawmakers efforts to shorten death sentence appeals processes would result in litigation and be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the argument that repealing the death penalty wasn’t the answer resonated most with a majority of lawmakers on the House committee.

As did the gut-wrenching grief of murder victims’ family members and the gruesome details of some of Utah’s most horrific crimes.

Family members of Eva Olesen, who in 1985 was stabbed 10 times then shot in the back of her head at point-blank range through a pillow. The family of Beth Potts and her daughter Kaye Tiede, who were shot and killed in 1990. The family of Maurine Hunsaker, who in 1986 was kidnapped and tied to a tree before her throat was slashed. The family of Claudia Benn, whose throat was slashed and who was sexually assaulted with the same knife. The families of the young couple Riley Powell and Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson, whose bodies were dumped in a mine shaft.

They all pleaded with lawmakers not to take the death penalty off the table, arguing capital punishment acts as a deterrent to Utah’s most violent criminals while also expressing fear that removing it would open the door to more legal challenges to the men who have been convicted of those crimes.

Almost all of them currently sit on Utah’s death row, though Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has said he won’t seek the death penalty for Jerrod Baum, the man accused of killing Powell and Otteson. Leavitt made that announcement late last year while backing the effort to repeal and replace Utah’s capital punishment statute with a new sentence of 45 years to life.

These are the 7 men sitting on Utah’s death row 

Bill Powell, Riley Powell’s father, said the death penalty “was taken away from us by a certain person which I won’t name. But we need the death penalty to deter these things from happening.” 

“The death penalty is broken,” he said, but argued Utah “has a lot of smart people. If they all put their heads together they ought to be able to figure out something to get this appeal process shortened and taken care of.”

Can Utah’s death penalty be fixed? 

Rep. Jefferson Burton, R-Salem, asked that very question of retired First District Judge Kevin Allen, who spoke in favor of its repeal and replacement: “Why not fix it? Why throw it out?” 

“I don’t think we can, given the current system that we have,” Allen said. “Fixing that would have to take place at a national level, not just a state level.” 

 Allen said the “constitutional provisions in place that are currently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court — and I don’t see those changing — require the state to pass this extraordinary burden to show that everything was done correctly as best they can.” That can take decades, he said. 

“What deterrent does that send? I don’t think it sends any deterrent. All it does is victimize, once again, the true victims of these types of crimes,” Allen said. “It also costs the state millions of dollars.” 

Allen, who presided over the Lizzy Shelley court case, said he was “absolutely convinced” police would have found the 5-year-old girl’s body in a matter of days without the help of her uncle. “And the suggestion that he reveal the body wasn’t his idea,” Allen noted. “It was a defense attorney.” 

Allen joined the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Lowry Snow, R-Cedar City, as a leading presenter for the bill. Snow, a former prosecutor, laid out his arguments in three points: “No. 1, the death penalty is broken. No. 2, the death penalty unintentionally can cause more harm to victim (family) members. No. 3, maintaining the death penalty means we run the risk, in our state, of executing innocent people.” 

Is anyone innocent on Utah’s death row? 

Snow and Jenise Anderson, of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Project, pointed specifically to the case of Douglas Stewart Carter, who has sat on Utah’s death row for 35 years after being convicted of aggravated murder for stabbing and shooting a Provo grandmother, 57-year-old Eva Olesen, who was also the aunt of a former Provo police chief. 

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Does this man’s death row case erode confidence in Utah’s death penalty? 

Carter, who is Black, was convicted and sentenced using testimony from star witnesses who his defense attorneys say were threatened, paid thousands of dollars and told to lie by the Provo Police Department in the 1980s. Almost three years ago, the Utah Supreme Court ordered that Carter receive a new evidence hearing in 4th District Court, pointing to “damning revelations” from those witnesses. 

“Although no one has yet been exonerated from Utah’s death row, at least one death row case must be brought to your attention because we may very well have an innocent man on our death row,” Anderson said, pointing to the concerns in Carter’s case. 

That evidence hearing took place in November. Late last month, Carter’s defense team submitted their written post-hearing brief to the court asking for either a new trial or new sentencing hearing. 

The Utah Attorney General’s Office has until mid-March to file a response, but Andrew Peterson, the Utah Attorney General’s capital case coordinator, called the latest brief “highly one-sided” that left out “tremendous amounts of evidence that the judge heard.” 

Peterson noted Carter “did confess under circumstances that the Utah Supreme Court said were constitutional.” While Carter has challenged that confession, he hasn’t recanted it, Peterson said. He also questioned why, over a decade ago, when Carter had the ability to test DNA in the case, he didn’t. Now that DNA isn’t available to test. 

“They waited until nothing could be done about it. Why would they do that?” Anderson said. “Well I’ll tell you why. Because he knows that it’s his.” 

Gary Olesen, Eva Olesen’s son, told lawmakers the bill to repeal the death penalty is “just another law to save the breath of violent criminals.” 

“We have endured 36 years of heart wrenching appeals as we have watched the fancy footwork of defense lawyers delay justice,” Gary Olesen said. 

“Countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the advantage of life over death.”

[Mr. Kaczynski said in July 2006. His coalition partner, the far-right League of Polish Families, wants to change the country’s penal code so that pedophiles convicted of murder will face execution.]

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The case against repeal that prevailed 

In recent weeks, momentum has built against the repeal and replace legislation, even though it was spearheaded by two influential conservative lawmakers including Snow and Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton. 

Two of the House’s top leaders, House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, and House Majority Leader Mike Schultz, said earlier this month they were personally opposed to rolling back Utah’s death penalty

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Why the bill to end this state’s death penalty is facing a tough legislative battleground 

Schultz, a member of the House law enforcement committee, staked his position. Five more of his fellow Republican committee members sided with him. 

Schultz made his point by reading painfully graphic details from the brutal 1988 murder of 28-year-old Southern Utah University student Gordon Ray Church. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Ryan Wilcox, eventually told Schultz to stop describing the violence against Church that led to his killing. 

“I keep hearing over and over that the death penalty is broken in Utah. If that’s the case why don’t we spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars that has been spent on lobbyists and the millions of dollars that’s been spent around the nation trying to eradicate the death penalty, why don’t we spend that money trying to get the death penalty fixed?” Schulz said. 

“The money that’s spent trying to abolish the death penalty in Utah should be put towards making it better.” 

Weeks, in an interview with the Deseret News after the vote, said she didn’t walk away from the hearing disappointed or discouraged. Instead, she said she felt energized — and she’ll be watching for Schultz to follow up on the issue. 

“I wanted to shake his hand and congratulate him on being the person that is going to fix the death penalty,” Weeks said. “Because it’s going to take somebody like him that can clearly see the challenges.” 

Weeks, who has told the Deseret News before that she spent 25 years of her life trying to figure out how to fix the issue on the federal level to no avail, said Schultz will “find out” if it’s actually doable. 

“That’s what it’s going to take,” she said. “I could tell he was passionate about it. And I haven’t seen that. I’m going to be watching him. I’m going to let him know that if he needs my assistance, my experience trapped inside of the system, to let me know.” 

Weeks added: “I don’t know if it can be fixed. I don’t know. I mean, it’s such a daunting process. If they could fix it, I think they already would, honestly. But, nobody’s talked about fixing the death penalty, really.” 

Now that three iterations of a death penalty repeal bill has failed on Utah’s Capitol Hill in the last six years, maybe now it’s time to shift gears, she said. 

“I think people are paying attention, and that was my only hope.” 

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933950/death-penalty-repeal-utah-murders-relived-before-house-committee-votes-down-bill-legislature

  

Panoramic mosaic of the execution chamber at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, USA. The platform at the left is used for lethal injection. The seat at the right and the two narrow gun ports on the far wall of the room are used for execution by firing squad. Built in 1998, the first person to be executed in this chamber was Joseph Mitchell Parsons in 1999.


Bill to repeal death penalty fails in Utah House committee 

by Daniel Woodruff, KUTV

Tuesday, February 15th 2022

After lengthy debate and passionate testimony on all sides, a Utah House committee narrowly defeated a bill repealing the death penalty in Utah. 

The 5 to 6 vote came late Monday after a nearly three-hour hearing of the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee and a strong plea from House Majority Leader Mike Schultz (R-Hooper) to vote down House Bill 147.

"This bill would remove the possibility of death sentence for all future crimes, no matter how horrible," Schultz said just before the vote. "A future Ted Bundy could not receive the death penalty if this bill passed.." 

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Lowry Snow (R-St. George), would have removed death as a punishment for aggravated murder committed after May 4 unless a prosecutor filed an intent to seek the death penalty before that date. The bill also would have added a possible sentence of 45 years to life for that crime.

Snow argued the death penalty leads to excessive costs to taxpayers and does not bring peace or healing to victims. 

“When something is not right, we need to fix it or get rid of it. The death penalty doesn’t work,” Snow said, also noting the risk of executing an innocent person. “I think it’s time for Utah to get rid of this albatross.” 

But opposition to the bill was strong. House committee members heard from loved ones of Lizzy Shelley, a 5-year-old Cache County girl who was killed by her uncle, Alex Whipple, in 2019. Whipple avoided the death penalty in exchange for telling police where the girl’s body was

“There are monsters in the world that should never be out of prison,” Jessica Black, Lizzy’s mother, tearfully told lawmakers. “Having the death penalty allowed us to find our daughter and put the monster in prison for the rest of his life.” 

Speaking in support of eliminating the death penalty was Sharon Weeks, sister of Brenda Lafferty. Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter were both murdered in American Fork in 1984. Her two brothers-in-law, Dan and Ron Lafferty, were convicted of the killings. 

In emotional testimony, Weeks described the lengthy legal process her family went through without resolution. While Dan Lafferty is serving life in prison, Ron Lafferty was sentenced to death but died of natural causes in 2019

“The death penalty for me was like a neon light shining, and I was focused on receiving it,” Weeks said. “I knew that I had to have it in order to move forward, as was explained to us by the state.” 

Thinking about Ron Lafferty and his pending death sentence every day, she said, was consuming. “It eclipses everything that you do.” 

 

My sentiments are more in favour of the victim than they are of the murderer. There is a tendency nowadays when any matter of criminal law is discussed to think far more of the criminal than his victim. - Chief Justice Rayner Goddard

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But family members of several other victims shared equally heartfelt and emotional stories in pushing for capital punishment to remain in force. 

“This bill will potentially give the man that killed my mom a parole date,” said Matt Hunsaker, son of Maurine Hunsaker who was murdered in 1986. Her killer, Ralph Menzies, remains on death row

In fact, speaking in opposition to the bill, the Utah Attorney General’s Office argued current death row inmates would likely all sue for legal relief, adding up to a decade in additional court hearings. 

“You will not save families trauma,” said Andrew Peterson, capital case coordinator with the Attorney General’s office. “But this bill will inflict the very harm on the cases that it was intended to remove to other families.” 

Peterson also said removing the death penalty would not save time for victims’ families in the courtroom because “non-capital inmates endlessly follow the same pattern of abusive litigation that retraumatizes victims and families.” 

An effort to repeal the death penalty in Utah in 2016 passed the Senate and got through a House committee, but the bill died on the House floor as the session ended. 

INTERNET SOURCE: https://kutv.com/news/local/bill-to-repeal-death-penalty-fails-utah-house-committee-politics-legislature-capital-punishment

Bill to repeal Utah's death penalty fails to move forward

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Feb 15, 2022

FOX 13 News Utah 

After hours of discussion, presentation and heart-wrenching testimony, a bill that would have repealed Utah's death penalty failed to move forward from committee on Monday night.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/bill-to-repeal-utahs-death-penalty-fails-to-move-forward

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“I think that you have to look at what's the penalty. We as a society have said that certain crimes, heinous crimes such as the murder of somebody, [are punished by death], I would like to actually increase the death penalty to apply to aggravated sexual assault of a child.... There are certain things that I think you are not going to rehabilitate somebody, you're going to stick them in a correctional facility for the rest of their lives. You are going to put guards in danger sometimes trying to deal with these people. I think that the proper thing to do is to permanently terminate this person, remove them from society permanently."

- Paul Ray, Utah House of Representatives

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2022/02/save-death-penalty-in-utah-2022.html

SAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN UTAH: DON’T GET RID OF THE DEATH PENALTY

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2022/02/save-capital-punishment-in-utah-dont.html

Parole Watch {Utah}:

1a. Police officer seeks changes in the Utah Board of Pardons

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=236013708614626&id=101692122046786

https://ksltv.com/478772/police-officer-seeks-changes-in-the-utah-board-of-pardons/

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1b. Utah officer who survived murder attempt wants parole board accountability

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=366960071900833&id=100057605302283

https://kutv.com/news/2news-investigates/utah-officer-who-survived-murder-attempt-wants-parole-board-accountability

Pro Death Penalty Quotes {Utah}:

1. Local lawmakers support capital punishment in Utah

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=241763991372931&id=101692122046786

https://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/archive/2021/02/05/local-lawmakers-support-capital-punishment-in-utah/

2. Ex-deputy Utah County attorney chides efforts to abolish death penalty

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=375405637722943&id=100057605302283

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2021/dec/29/ex-deputy-utah-county-attorney-chides-efforts-to-abolish-death-penalty/

3. Proposed bill would prohibit Utah from seeking death penalty

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=255838783298785&id=101692122046786

https://kjzz.com/news/utah-legislators-propose-new-bill-aiming-to-remove-death-penalty

4a. Another Utah Senator, Republican Don Ipson, said that, while he believes the death penalty as it stands is broken, he doesn’t want to “take tools out of the prosecutor’s toolbox.”

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=259712009578129&id=101692122046786

https://thecrimereport.org/2022/01/19/will-utah-scrap-the-death-penalty/

4b. ‘We want to hear from the people’: Southern Utah legislators sound off on how constituents can be heard

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=259712976244699&id=101692122046786

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2022/01/14/mgk-we-want-to-hear-from-the-people-southern-utah-legislators-sound-off-on-how-constituents-can-be-heard/

Last week, Utah County Attorney David Leavitt was accused of inappropriately dismissing a stalking charge against a campaign donor who also served an LDS mission with Leavitt’s brother.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=255839676632029&id=101692122046786

https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/fox-13-investigates-utah-county-attorney-accused-of-urging-staff-to-drop-charges-against-his-handyman

Execution of Pedophile {1996 Event} {Utah}:

John Albert Taylor (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996)

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https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/01/utah-firing-squad-john-albert-taylor.html

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Troy Michael Kell (born June 13, 1968) is an inmate on death row in Utah. Troy Kell was sentenced to life in prison by the State of Nevada for the 1986 murder of James "Cotton" Kelly. Shortly after his conviction he was transferred to the Utah State Prison as part of a prisoner exchange program. On July 6, 1994, Troy Kell attacked and killed inmate Lonnie Blackmon at the Utah Department of Corrections Gunnison facility, stabbing Blackmon a total of 67 times while his associate, Eric Daniels, held Blackmon down. Kell was sentenced to death by firing squad for his part in the murder. Once in prison, Kell became a white supremacist gang leader. Prior to the attack on Blackmon, Kell had been involved in race-related altercations with several black inmates, including Blackmon. The murder was captured on the prison security closed-circuit TV camera.

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https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/07/white-supremacist-prison-killer-troy.html

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Justice for Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2021/09/justice-for-breezy-otteson-and-riley.html

VFFDP LINKS:

1a. State seeking death penalty for man accused of killing 5-year-old Wilson boy

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=393368152593358&id=100057605302283

https://www.witn.com/2022/01/25/state-seeking-death-penalty-man-accused-killing-5-year-old-wilson-boy/

1b. ‘Nobody should get away with murdering a child.’ Mother of NC boy backs death penalty. By Josh Shaffer Updated January 27, 2022 9:39 AM

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=395820622348111&id=100057605302283

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article257736033.html

https://vk.com/wall-184585082_417

1c. Suspect indicted by grand jury in kindergartner's 2020 shooting death

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=375407967722710&id=100057605302283

https://wcti12.com/news/local/suspect-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-kindergartners-2020-shooting-death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Cannon_Hinnant


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https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/08/in-loving-memory-of-cannon-hinnant.html

Murdered Children:

2. Inside the murder of Jessie Blodgett: Teen found dead in bed by mum

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=249432237272773&id=101692122046786

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/human-interest/inside-the-murder-of-jessie-blodgett-teen-found-dead-in-bed-by-mum--c-5179138

https://www.theloveisgreaterthanhateproject.com/who-we-are/

Murdered Children {Nigeria}:

3a. Will Hanifa Abubakar get the justice she deserves?

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=392024346061072&id=100057605302283

https://www.thecable.ng/will-hanifa-abubakar-get-the-justice-she-deserves

3b. Hanifa Abubakar: Ganduje Vows To Sign Death Sentence Without Delay

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=262078682674795&id=101692122046786

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/01/25/hanifa-abubakar-ganduje-vows-to-sign-court-judgement-without-delay/

3c. Aisha Buhari ‘endorses’ capital punishment for Hanifa Abubakar’s killer

Hanifa was abducted on December 2, 2021, by Abdulmalik Tanko, the proprietor of the school.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=392024869394353&id=100057605302283

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/507497-aisha-buhari-endorses-capital-punishment-for-hanifa-abubakars-killer.html 

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