Utah firing squad execution highlights death penalty debate
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 14:01
in Earth & Climate
Utah banned the practice in 2004 because of a belief it overshadowed the victim and the crime. Yet some death penalty experts say the method used to kill Ronnie Lee Gardner is more humane than lethal injection. Ronnie Lee Gardner, the convicted double-murderer executed by a firing squad in Utah in the pre-dawn hours Friday morning, died in a manner that even the...