National group to push for death penalty repeal in Wyoming

A national group that advocates repeal of the death penalty is bringing its efforts to Wyoming.

Brooklyn-based nonprofit Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has announced it would be hiring a Wyoming field director to aid in grassroots efforts to repeal the state’s rarely used death penalty.

A bill that would have repealed the death penalty in Wyoming failed in the state Legislature last winter but the measure passed the state House before being defeated in the Senate.

Hannah Cox is national manager for Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty.

Cox tells the Casper Star-Tribune the group was surprised that a red state like Wyoming could come so close to repealing the death penalty with almost no conservative groundwork beforehand.