Utah Territorial Legislature passes execution by firing squad, hanging, and beheading.
- Type
- Government Document
- Source
- Utah Territorial Legislature LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Laws and Ordinances of the State of Deseret (Utah), (Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Company, 1919), 27
- Scribe/Publisher
- Shepard Book Company
- People
- Utah Territorial Legislature
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
HEBER C. KIMBALL,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved, Jan. 19, 1851, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Gov.
Thomas Bullock, Clerk
CRIMINAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DESERET.–Passed, Jan-uary 17, 1851.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret, that if any person or persons shall, with premeditated intent, unlawfully kill a human being, in this State, they shall be deemed guilty of murder, and on conviction of the same, before a court having jurisdiction thereof, shall suffer death.
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Sec. 10. Be it further ordained, that when any person shall be found guilty of murder, under any of the preceding sections of this ordinance, and sented to die, he, she or they shall suffer death, by being shot, hung or beheaded.
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