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Wyoming state senate committee has advanced to the full Senate a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty.
After taking testimony from witnesses including the state public defender’s office, family members of murder victims, a death-row exoneree, anti-death-penalty activists, religious organizations, and a national expert on capital punishment, the all-Republican Senate Revenue Committee voted 4-1 on March 4, 2021 to pass Senate File 150. The vote marked the second time in three years that a senate committee had approved a bill to abolish the death penalty. In 2019, a bill sponsored by
House Majority Whip Jared Olsen (R – Cheyenne), passed the house and was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 4-0 vote before being defeated in an 18-12 Senate vote.