(Salt Lake City, UT) – The top leaders in the Utah House are revealing today they are opposed to the effort to repeal and replace the state’s death penalty. House Speaker Brad Wilson and Majority Leader Mike Schultz told reporters Friday they would not back HB147, which would remove death as a punishment for aggravated murder. Wilson and Schultz reasoned that capital punishment is a tool for prosecutors that could be used to help get confessions from accused killers. Several county prosecutors have backed the repeal effort.