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Salt Lake DA uses Utah’s newly created ‘child torture’ law

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office charged two people this week in the first child torture case since lawmakers passed a bill inspired in part by social media influencer and convicted child abuser Ruby Franke. Tyrel Scott Belone and Amber Lee Leary were both charged on Tuesday ...

Utah judge schedules execution by firing squad for a man with dementia

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge on Wednesday set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years, even as his lawyers file appeals and argue his condition is worsening. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother ...

Layton woman sentenced in 2010 killing of her own children

FARMINGTON — A Layton mother who pleaded guilty with a mental condition last year to the 2010 murders of her two children was sentenced Monday in Farmington’s 2nd District Court. Sun Cha Warhola, 59, received concurrent sentences of 15 years to life on two counts of first-degree felony ...