Those republicans who vote for this will suffer a massacre at the ballot box come primary season
Those republicans who vote for this will suffer a massacre at the ballot box come primary season
Yet another pretend death penalty state goes down.
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
Not a surprise from my point of view. Wyoming is a very fiscally conservative state that gets its funding from a permanent fund & energy extraction revenue and those revenues have taken a pounding especially coal and oil.
It doesn't mean that Wyoming has repealed the DP like Colorado but it wouldn't surprise me if that did happen in WY as well.
Bill To Repeal Death Penalty Filed In Wyoming Legislature
A bill that would repeal Wyoming's death penalty has been filed in the 2021 session of the Wyoming Legislature.
You can read Senate File 150 at: https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2021/SF0150
It's being sponsored by Senator(s) Boner, Baldwin, Kost, Landen, Pappas, Rothfuss, and Schuler and Representative(s) Barlow, Burkhart, Connolly, Nicholas, Olsen, Western, and Wilson.
A bill to repeal the death penalty in the 2020 session of the legislature received majority support for introduction by a 37-23 margin in the state House. But even though it got a majority voting in favor, that margin fell three votes short of the 2/3 majority needed for the introduction of a non-budget bill during a budget session.
But because the 2021 session of the legislature is a general session, it will need only a simple majority vote to be introduced.
Wyoming has only executed one person since 1965. Mark Hopkinson was put to death in 1992 for ordering the murder of Jeff Green of Mountain View.
Green was scheduled to testify against Hopkinson for ordering the bombing of the home of Evanston attorney Vincent Vehar of Evanston. Vehar, his wife, and their son were killed in that bombing.
Death penalty opponents argue that it is almost never used in Wyoming and say that simply having the law on the books costs the state money since the public defender's office has to pay to retain an attorney with experience in death penalty cases.
Some death penalty opponents also argue that the state putting someone to death is immoral and amounts to murder.
But supporters of the death penalty say it's the only appropriate penalty for some, especially heinous, crimes. They also say that the threat of the death penalty is a useful tool for prosecutors to get defendants to plead guilty a part of a plea agreement and/or to give up information, such as where bodies of victims may be located.
(source: k2radio.com)
The senate will take up the bill tomorrow, if it passes the house will almost certainly be a formality.
Wyoming Senate defeats death penalty repeal bill Thursday.
"How do you get drunk on death row?" - Werner Herzog
"When we get fruit, we get the juice and water. I ferment for a week! It tastes like chalk, it's nasty" - Blaine Keith Milam #999558 Texas Death Row
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