On this date, June
18, 2010, Ronnie Lee Gardner was the third Death Row Inmate to die from the firing squad in Utah. He was also the seventh person to be executed in the State of
Utah since 1976.
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Ronnie Lee Gardner
Photo by the Utah Department of Corrections
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Gardner was executed on the metal chair at
the right side of this chamber in Utah State Prison. The two narrow rifle ports
can be seen in the middle-left. Panoramic mosaic of the execution chamber at Utah
State Prison in Draper, Utah, USA. The platform at the left is used for lethal
injection. The seat at the right and the two narrow gun ports on the far wall
of the room are used for execution by firing squad. Built in 1998, the first
person to be executed in this chamber was Joseph Mitchell Parsons in 1999.
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Please go to this previous blog post to learn more about the
condemned killer.
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Please go to two of these Unit 1012 Blog Posts to hear from the victims’ families and also a rebuttal to the abolitionists.
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