Friday, June 18, 2010

Utah Deathrow Prisoner Clenched Fist After Firing Squad Execution

Five sharpshooters fired bullets through the heart of double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner on Friday, making him the first US prisoner in 14 years to be executed by firing squad.


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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