Welcome to the Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (UTADP) website.  Here, you will find information about why the death penalty should no longer be used in the state of Utah.   Please click on the control buttons above for more information or here to see our coalition partners and position paper. >>

Utah group aims to end death penalty SL Trib (8/21/10)

Fair trial integral to American values  Deseret News (6/21/10) - An Op-Ed by Darcy Goddard, Legal Director for the ACLU of Utah

Protesters pray, plead for end to capital punishment - They lament Utah has death penalty but keep hope. SLTrib (6/18/10)

Utahns, visitors pray in opposition to Ronnie Lee Gardner execution Deseret News (6/18/10)

Death penalty opponents protest Gardner execution KSL 5 (6/17/10)

Death watch: Utah needs a death penalty debate - A Salt Lake Tribune Editorial >> (06/17/10)

UTAHNS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY DECLARES THE PENDING EXECUTION OF RONNIE LEE GARDNER: “NOT JUST, NOT FAIR”

A statement by The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, Tenth Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Utah, on the scheduled execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner (6/910/10)

Death Penalty Unconstitutional, Says Justice Stevens >> (5/7/10)

Capital punishment: The ugly truth,By Erin Mcguire - A Salt Lake Tribune Guest Editorial >> (5/14/10)

Ralph Dellapiana, a public defender and the Death Penalty Project Director for High Road for Human Rights, and Nancy Appleby, member of the Peace and Justice Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah are guests on RADIOACTIVE, KRCL 90.1, 4/26/10. Click here to listen to the hour long broadcast >>

Capital punishment protesters gather at Matheson Courthouse - Fox 13  >> (4/23/10)

Utahns band together to oppose death penalty - KSL 5  >> (4/23/10)

Protesters object to death penalty of Ronnie Lee Gardner - Deseret News >> (4/23/10)

Coalition seeks alternatives to death penalty - Salt Lake Tribune >> (4/23/10)

Read a 4/22/10 press release announcing the formation of Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty >>

Death penalty - Neither just nor moral - A Salt Lake Tribune Editorial 4/19/2010
More than a decade has passed since the state of Utah executed a convicted murderer. Now, as the state prepares to once again apply the death penalty, is a good time for Utahns and their elected leaders to consider abandoning this archaic and deeply flawed form of punishment.
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