| FAIRSCAPE COMMENT The slaughtering of criminals should have long disappeared. But the players in this macabre game of Ronnie Lee had their hands tied as much as Ronnie Lee's. The law is the law. The man must pay for his crimes. People are bewildered about what else could be done. Ronnie gets shot or he gets away with it. That's the mindset. In Fairscape there would be a path to redemption. Ronnie would have found it hard work. The skeptics would have access to his progress. Five separate agencies would have access to his progress - each able to veto all the others. How would we know whether Ronnie was lying about being a changed man? Fairscape would know. Click here for the Fairscape website. |
A death row prisoner died in a barrage of bullets early Friday as the US carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years.
Gardner, 49, chose to die by firing squad - an option open to him because he was convicted before Utah adopted lethal injection in 2004. He was strapped to a black metal chair surrounded by sandbags to stop ricochets.
A white target was then pinned over his heart, a hood placed over his head, and five volunteer marksmen armed with .30-caliber rifles opened fire from behind a wall.
Only four of the weapons were loaded with live rounds and one contained a wax bullet, allowing the marksmen to retain some doubt over whether they fired the fatal shot. He was pronounced dead at 12:17 am. The executioners were all certified police officers who remain anonymous. They stood about 25 feet from Gardner.
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