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More Editorial Reflection on the Gardner Execution

By Steve Hall

Today's Des Moines Register carries the editorial, "Executing criminals always a barbaric act."About 50 people were executed for crimes in the United States in 2009 - an average of one a week. National media pay little attention to most of them. But everyone was paying attention to convicted killer Ronnie Lee Garner last week. Journalists around the country clamored to cover the Utah man's death.That attention was for one reason: The state executed him using .30 caliber rifles. Gardner requested this method of death before Utah outlawed it. This was no "run of the mill" lethal injection execution. Gardner was strapped to a metal chair and wore a black target on his chest. The shots from the guns killed him quickly, according to witnesses...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).