A federal appeals court recently upheld the conviction of a man who shot and killed a Millard County sheriff’s deputy. The man was sentenced in 2017 to life in prison plus 80 years for the death of a law enforcement officer during a job. This decision occurred after a jury previously acquitted the man of… Read More
Double Jeopardy
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Lethal Injection
On December 12, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear hear a challenge from death row inmate, Romell Broom, who argued that because the state mishandled the first attempt to execute him, a second attempt would be unconstitutional. Although Justice Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan said they would have granted the appeal to decide… Read More