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A 5 page paper discussing Utah's death penalty. The writer explores the controversies and looks at specific cases. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Utah, studies show that 93 percent of the population favors capital punishment(NPR 1996). Crime continues to lead in polls that gauge prioritizing of the most serious issues facing the U.S.
A public outcry for harsher punishment, including the death penalty, is obvious in legislation at the state and Federal levels. Politicians platforms calling for the death penalty reiterate the
public rage against the violent criminal. What is the impact of the death penalty on the homicide rate? Can victimization be prevented by letting the public know that killers
will face death themselves? Public execution has been an established means of punishment since the founding of America(Wormer 92). II. Utahs Death Penalty and its Controversies Taylors
case has generated national attention because of the method of execution, which is considered to be less humane than the conventional lethal injection that 32 states use, according to the
Utah State Corrections Department spokesman Jack Ford. Ford said that he wasnt sure if its any more "gruesome" than the more modern mechanics of the death penalty, but
that the public sees it as worse. According to Ford, the public views lethal injections as not only less violent but as more professional. Ironically, the Utah Corrections
Department received hundreds of callers asking to be chosen for the firing squad after a USA Today article suggested that the state could not find willing marksmen, Ford said.
The way in which a firing squad execution is occurs is that the prisoner is strapped to a chair in a prison warehouse with a
hood over his head and a target over his heart. A five-member firing squad aims from behind a wall. One of the marksmens guns holds a blank, so that
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