Sims who are confident can demand the Grim Reaper to spare the Sim's life, with a 40% success chance. This increases to 50% if the pleading Sim is very confident.
Utah executed Ronnie Gardner by firing squad. 2021 Four Utah district attorneys urge the state legislature and Governor Spencer Cox to enact legislation to repeal and replace Utah's death penalty.
A total of twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
Utah executed Ronnie Gardner by firing squad. 2021 Four Utah district attorneys urge the state legislature and Governor Spencer Cox to enact legislation to repeal and replace Utah's death penalty.
The last and most recent federal execution was of Dustin Higgs, who was executed on January 16, 2021.
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Utah. Utah was the first state to resume executions after the 1972–1976 national moratorium on capital punishment ended with Gregg v. Georgia, when Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.
Currently, only New Hampshire has a law specifying hanging as an available secondary method of execution, now only applicable to one person, who was sentenced to capital punishment by the state prior to its repeal in 2019.
Judgment of death -- Method is lethal injection -- Exceptions for use of firing squad. When a defendant is convicted of a capital felony and the judgment of death has been imposed, lethal intravenous injection is the method of execution.
In 2004, the legislature passed HB180, which removed the right of the condemned to choose the method of execution and left lethal injection as the only remaining option in the state.