SALT LAKE CITY — With the shooting deaths of two Iowa police officers bolstering his resolve, a Utah legislator is proposing a mandatory death penalty clause for anyone convicted of targeting and killing a cop.
Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, is drafting legislation that would enhance the penalties for anyone who specifically targets and assaults a police officer. A first draft of the bill is complete but not yet available, Ray said, and a number of questions remain about how the change would work.
Regardless, the legislator is insistent that stiffer consequences are necessary to prevent increasingly common attacks on officers.
When he received a news alert early Wednesday about the fatal ambush of two officers in Des Moines, Ray said he became “furious” and even more committed to stepping up the law in Utah.
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