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Firing squad execution underscores inhumanity of death penalty

By Torrey Hullum

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Richard C. Dieter [Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center]: "Ronnie Lee Gardner [BBC Backgrounder] was executed in a hail of bullets as he sat strapped to a chair in a Utah prison a few nights ago. Gardner got the kind of execution he wanted--death by firing squad--and Utah finally got what it wanted--retribution for the murder Gardner had committed twenty-five years ago. We the people (and in this case, there was a worldwide audience) probably scratched our heads wondering what that was all about. Even though the U.S. is averaging one execution per week, no one pays much attention to such events because they are not news. They are not

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).

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