Shackled to a chair and with a black hood covering his head, Gardner, 49, was put to death just after midnight in a brightly lit execution chamber at Utah State Prison.
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Nate Carlisle, one of nine journalists who witnessed the execution, "focused on [Gardner's] fist."
At the bottom of his restraint, I focused on his fist. Gardner died much the way he lived -- with a clenched fist.
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