Utah’s Peculiar Death Penalty
April 30, 2018[…] become my friends. From 1958 to 1962 the names of Rivenberg and Garcia were often in Utah newspapers. Both had been convicted of the brutal sex slaying of another inmate in an attic above […]
[…] become my friends. From 1958 to 1962 the names of Rivenberg and Garcia were often in Utah newspapers. Both had been convicted of the brutal sex slaying of another inmate in an attic above […]
[…] by four walls, and waving goodbye to those brave spirits who depart each day for the cruel world. Whenever I return from a trip, I like to sit in my living room and refurbish […]
[…] A request from George Carpenter for sea gull drawings for the 1907 Christmas edition of the Deseret News inspired Mahonri’s design for another work of importance to the Mormon heritage, the Sea Gull Monument. […]
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[…] training. A second area of importance was the research opportunities provided by the Brigham Young University New World Archaeological Foundation (BYU NWAF). In the early 1960s President David O. McKay appointed Elder Howard W. […]
Under the title “Puzzling Fossils Unearthed,” the Deseret News of 13 June, 1968 reported the discovery of “a fossilized footprint” which was said to pose a “dilemma for geologists.” The discovery was made in […]
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