Utah killer to be executed early Friday; many call method archaic
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving an old West style of justice that hasn't been used for 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.
Barring the success of a final appeal, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, have a target pinned over his heart and die in a hail of bullets from five anonymous marksmen armed with .30-caliber rifles and firing from behind a ported wall.
A flurry of last-minute appeals and requests for stays were rejected Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Gov. Gary Herbert.
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i believe the only people that should be allowed to input would be the courts (and/or jury) and the victims family. shouldnt matter what i think, you think, or anyone thinks about someone a thousand miles away that did nothing to me, my friends, or my family.
ReplyDeletebut im glad they shot him! =)
Has nothing to do with the wild west.
ReplyDeleteThey should have sighted those guns in better or those cops need some practice.
ReplyDeleteHow about one of these for Sarah Foxwells killer--bet you could find a lot of volunteers for that firing squad !
ReplyDeleteTo my knowledge, they is not a 'hail of bullets'. Only one shooter has a live round in his weapon, and no one knows which shooter has it.
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected.
ReplyDeleteThe five executioners, certified police officers who volunteered for the task and remain anonymous, stood about 25 feet away, behind a wall cut with a gunport, and were armed with matching .30-caliber Winchester rifles. One was loaded with a blank so no one knows who fired the fatal shot. Sandbags stacked behind Gardner's chair kept the bullets from ricocheting around the cinderblock room.
i think it should go back to the old days of firing squads and hangings hell even the electric chair and who says the person being sent to death shouldnt suffer do you think he cared if their victim suffered ..
ReplyDeleteSarah Foxwell is an example do think that poor little girl didnt suffer
Leggs should be put to death in a painful torturing way in front of anyone that wants to see ..... hell id pay to see it ... hell the county could charge people to see it and make some of the money that Politt has wasted