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Utah firing squad executes convicted killer
A barrage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner's chest where a target had been pinned over his heart. Two minutes later, the twice-convicted killer was pronounced dead as blood pooled in his dark blue prison jumpsuit.It was the first time in 14 years that an American inmate was executed by firing squad - a method Gardner choose over lethal injection. But death penalty opponents around the world reacted with horror all the same, renewing an international debate about capital punishment in the U.S. Gardner was the third man to die by firing squad since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Posted by: Fred 2010-06-19 |
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