Posted on 03/13/2015 12:35:46 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Randy Gardner still struggles four years later to talk about seeing his brother's bullet-riddled body at the mortuary after he was executed.
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"When you take somebody and you tie them to a chair, put a hood over their head, and you shoot them from 25 feet with four rifles pointed at their heart, that's pretty barbaric."
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I wonder what his “brother’s” victim looked like.
Dead.
Good. Execution should not be pretty. Punishment should not be pretty. If you don’t commit crimes, then you need never worry about how gruesome the method of your execution will be.
$2 for 4 bullets. A bargain.
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Victims, two dead, one wounded.
I’m a fan of the hemp fandango myself, but I have no problem with Rehabilitation Program #.30-06.
“Catch!”
Sorry, you whooshed me.
personally, i'd prefer a glass crusher
or a wood chipper
A Firing Squad is for soldiers.
Criminals are hanged and royalty beheaded.
That’s the way it has always been.
Standard procedure was to roll the body into the basket, then place the head between the legs.
It is barbaric, disgusting even but, so was the original crime.
Se la vie
Ne cest pa....
“It takes a big man to cry. It takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
‘Deep Thoughts’ by Jack Handey
The Nuremberg crew lobbied for that. But they were hanged nevertheless. Except for Göring, who was AWOL for the event.
Um, so?
http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g1/gardner-ronnie-lee.htm
In 1980 Gardner was sent to prison for robbery and escaped in 1981. Two weeks later, Gardner confronted a man who was sleeping with his girlfriend. He was wounded by gunfire and was eventually arrested and returned to prison. In 1984 he was taken to the hospital for a check-up where he overpowered a guard, stole his pistol and escaped again. Three months later, Gardner shot and killed Melvyn John Otterstrom as he tended bar at the Cheers Tavern in Salt Lake City.
On April 2, 1985 Gardner was under a $1.5 million bail and was transported from the Utah State Prison to the Metropolitan Hall of Justice in Salt Lake City for a pretrial hearing on a second degree murder charge for killing Melvyn Otterstrom.
As Gardner and his guards entered the courthouse basement, Carma Jolley Hainsworth, walked up and handed Gardner a gun. It was later discovered that she had also hidden a bag containing men's clothing, duct tape and a knife in a tote bag under a sink in the women's bathroom in the basement of the courthouse. The guards exchanged gunfire with Gardner, shot him through the lung, and then retreated from the area.
In attempting to escape, Gardner entered the archives room, where he shot and killed attorney Michael Burdell, hiding behind the door. Gardner then forced prison officer Richard Thomas, who was also in the basement, to conduct him out of the archives room to a stairwell leading to the second floor. As Gardner crossed the lobby, he shot and seriously wounded Nicholas G. Kirk, then 58, a uniformed bailiff who was unarmed and had just stepped off an elevator. Gardner climbed the stairs to the next floor, where he took hostage Wilburn Miller, a vending machine serviceman.
As Gardner exited the building, Miller broke free and escaped. Outside, Gardner was surrounded by half a dozen waiting policemen with drawn weapons. Ordered to drop his weapon, he threw down his gun and lay down, surrendering to the officers.
I live in the usa. no royalty.
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