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Scheduled firing squad execution renewing Utah's death penalty debate

By Douglas A. Berman

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Barring some unexpected development, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be executed in Utah this coming Friday in the same manner in which the first modern US execution took place 33 years ago. This new Salt Lake Tribune article discusses this symetry and the persistent debate over capital punishment in the interim. Here are extended snippets: Gary Gilmore earned Utah a special place in history when his 1977 execution by firing squad reopened the door to capital punishment in the United States. The practice has remained problematic ever since. Otherwise, Ronnie Lee Gardner -- sentenced to die for the 1985 courthouse slaying of attorney Michael Burdell -- wouldn't have spent 25 years on Utah's death row awaiting his fate.... Now, as the nation again turns an eye toward Utah and its preparations for Gardner's Friday execution by firing squad, capital punishment proponents insist death is the only just penalty for the worst crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).

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