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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.
The state used this method to kill Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010, John Albert Taylor in 1996 and Gary Mark Gilmore in 1977. ... Reporters who witnessed Gardner's execution in 2010 said five volunteer ...
Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed at Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, for killing an attorney during a courthouse escape attempt. Gardner sat in a chair, sandbags around him and a target pinned ...
On a cool June night in 2010, Utah prison guards strapped convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner into a heavy steel chair flanked by black sandbags. On a cool June night in 2010, Utah prison guards ...
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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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.
Utah has not had an execution since Ronnie Lee Gardner was put to death by firing squad in 2010. Honie is one of six people awaiting execution in the state. The death sentence for a seventh person, Douglas Lovell, who killed a woman to keep her from testifying against him in a rape case, was overturned Thursday by the Utah Supreme Court. He ...