Utah bill was approved 6-3 by lawmakers that gives the death penalty to someone convicted of human trafficking if their victim dies. Opponents of the death penalty called said bill as expensive and excessive.
Georgia is set to execute its oldest death row inmate Tuesday, after a federal appeals court refused to hear a challenge to the law governing lethal injection.
Missouri prosecutors will have the murder case of Reginald Clemons re-tried. Clemons, along with three others, were charged of rape and first-degree murder of sisters Julie and Robin Kerry in 1991.
James Freeman is the second man to be placed in the death row through lethal injection for killing a Texas game warden in 2007. The accused fatally wounded Hurst in a shootout as officers tried to take him into custody.
