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The Firing Squad and Ronnie Lee Gardner: In the End, an All Too Typical Tale
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhat's remarkable about the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner early Friday morning isn't simply that it will be carried out via firing squad, a grisly vestige of Utah's frontier heritage. It isn't that Gardner murdered poor Michael Burdell more than 25 years ago and is only now about to see his capital sentence enacted. It isn't even that Gardner got a clemency hearing from the draconian Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, which has held only two such hearings since 1977. The most remarkable thing about the Gardner execution is how utterly typical the condemned man's ...
Utah Judge OKs Convict's Request for Firing Squad
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 23) -- A Utah killer has been granted his final wish. Barring further legal intervention, on June 18 five police officers will line up, point rifles at convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner and fire. Third District Judge Robin Reese signed the execution warrant today, after the 49-year-old Gardner told him, "I would like the firing squad, please." Francisco Kjolseth, Pool / AP Ronnie Lee Gardner, here in court Friday, is scheduled to be executed June 18. The Utah Legislature passed a law in 2004 that prohibits using the firing squad as a method of execution; however, Gardner and ...
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