Thread: Utah man chooses firing squad for execution

[quote name='Gypsy' date='23 April 2010 - 10:01 PM' timestamp='1272085265' post='142955']

Utah man chooses firing squad for execution





A Utah judge signed a death warrant Friday allowing the state to execute Ronnie Lee Gardner using a five-man firing squad, a spokeswoman for the Utah's state court system told CNN.



Before signing the death warrant, Third District Judge Robin Reese asked Gardner if he wanted to be executed by the method he had chosen previously, spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said.



"I would like the firing squad, please," Gardner replied.



It would be the state's first use of the firing squad since 1996, when John Albert Taylor was executed for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Taylor said he chose the method to embarrass Utah, which at the time was the only state that offered the firing squad as an option.



Gardner's execution date was set for June 18, 2010. However, Gardner's lawyer said he planned to file an appeal, which could change the date, Volmer said. Gardner was convicted of murder in the 1985 killing of an attorney during a courthouse escape attempt.



A change in Utah's law took the firing squad away as an execution option. But inmates, like Gardner, who have already chosen the firing squad can still be executed that way, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.



Oklahoma offers the firing squad as an option - but only if lethal injection and electrocution are later found to be unconstitutional, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.



The country's most famous execution by firing squad was when Gary Gilmore was killed using a firing squad in 1977. Asked for any last words before guns were fired, Gilmore replied: "Let's do it!"



His execution was also the inspiration for Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's Song."



http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/23...cution/?hpt=T2



They executed a man in Ohio this week who was saying that he was allergic to one of the medications administered. Guess what? He wasn't but what was the worst that would have happened? He would have died?

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I was there in 96, hell if I were to be executed, i think this is the way I would want it.

[quote name='michaelr' date='24 April 2010 - 12:04 AM' timestamp='1272085449' post='142957']

I was there in 96, hell if I were to be executed, i think this is the way I would want it.

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Boy, could I say something.

Death sentence for killing a lawyer?

I think not.

[quote name='Burning Giraffe' date='24 April 2010 - 05:31 AM' timestamp='1272101477' post='142993']

Are you kidding me? In our legal system, killing a lawyer will get you killed just as fast as killing a policeman.

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I know.

There are just too many lawyers , too many law suits, hence the high insurance rates.

Perhaps the Department of Game & Inland Fisheries should assist in thinning them out.

I wonder if he'll donate his eyes.

The country's most famous execution by firing squad was when Gary Gilmore was killed using a firing squad in 1977. Asked for any last words before guns were fired, Gilmore replied: "Let's do it!"

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[quote name='Davocrat' date='24 April 2010 - 07:16 AM' timestamp='1272118613' post='143075']

I wonder if he'll donate his eyes.







[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKG2rG-s29M[/media]

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I was there for that as well.