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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.
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.
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If carried out, he will be the first person since Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010 to be executed by this method as well as the first in South Carolina to be executed that way; only three people (all in Utah) were put to death by firing squad since the 1976 resumption of capital punishment in the U.S. [53] [54] At the age of 67, Sigmon is also set to ...
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 ...
"During the night of October 9, 1984, Gardner attempted to rob the Cheers Tavern in Salt Lake City." "the night of" could be clarified by being more specific about the time. For example: "At about 11 p.m. on October 9, 1984,". Gardner was evidently successful in robbing the tavern so "attempted" is the wrong word.
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English: News media van from KSL-TV at the Utah State Capitol covering the protest against the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner. Date 17 June 2010, 21:21:35