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Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16, 1961 – June 18, 2010) was an American criminal who received the death penalty for killing a man during an attempted escape from a courthouse in 1985, and was executed by a firing squad by the state of Utah in 2010. He is the most recent person to be executed by this method.
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Forty-six people were executed in the United States in 2010. Seventeen of them were in the state of Texas.One (Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis) was female.One (Paul Warner Powell) was executed via electrocution and another (Ronnie Lee Gardner) was executed via firing squad.
A rally at the Utah State Capitol protests the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner. In 1967, when the last pre-moratorium execution took place, Utah was the only remaining state to allow death row inmates to choose between firing squad and hanging.
No inmate has been executed in Utah since Ronnie Lee Gardner was put to death by a firing squad in 2010. Honie is one of just seven inmates on death row in the state. Relatives of the 49-year-old-victim, Claudia Benn, testified toward the end of the two-day hearing in opposition to commuting the death sentence.
The scheduled Aug. 8 execution would be Utah's first since Ronnie Lee Gardner was killed by firing squad in 2010, according to the state Department of Corrections. Honie, members of his family and ...
The execution scheduled for Aug. 8 would be Utah’s first since the 2010 execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, by firing squad. Honie was convicted of aggravated murder in the stabbing of his girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, 49.
The following sentence, "Gardner had a daughter in May 1977 and a son in February 1980 with Bischoff, but was convicted of robbery and sent to Utah State Prison in the same month his son was born" is cited to [6].