Firing Squad execute man in Utah
June 21, 2010
Ronnie Lee Gardner is a convicted murderer who has spent a quarter of a century on death row in Utah.
Gardner was able to choose his method of execution during his sentence, and chose to die by firing squad. The decision was made before the state banned the method in 1994. Since then, prisoners are not given the choice, and all are executed using the lethal injection.
Mr Gardner was convicted of fatally shooting a lawyer in 1985. He was attempting to escape from a court hearing, where he was facing a 1984 murder charge.
His family were gathered outside the prison in a suburb of Salt Lake City, but none saw the execution.
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