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Utah man makes last appeal to avoid firing squad
AP ^ | June 11, 2010 | JENNIFER DOBNER

Posted on 06/11/2010 4:40:09 PM PDT by PROCON

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1 posted on 06/11/2010 4:40:09 PM PDT by PROCON
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Gee I feel so bad for him, after all he has changed his ways. Give him a break huh? How about a nice meal and then shoot him!


2 posted on 06/11/2010 4:43:21 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (REGISTERED RIGHT WING THUG!)
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I think that in all fairness, this title is a little misleading, and should read, “Criminal Faces Death Penalty, Makes Final Appeal.”

The headline makes the state sound bad. Unless you’re from Texas, then you’re probably cheering... :)


3 posted on 06/11/2010 4:44:06 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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Didn’t he pick the firing squad? Or did I only think I read that on another thread? Anyone?


4 posted on 06/11/2010 4:44:59 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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>>>>>>>>>”He came from a family that exuded criminality and violence, and that is what he was,” Ronnie Lee Gardner’s lawyer, Andrew Parnes, told the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. “He’s changed, he’s overcome that.” Gardner <<<<<<<<<

If his change brings his victim back to life I would say pardon Him. Otherwise: shoot him.


5 posted on 06/11/2010 4:45:06 PM PDT by Venturer
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He needs to Gary Gilmore Up! “Let’s Do It!”


6 posted on 06/11/2010 4:45:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Bush made me do it!" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: PROCON

Crap. He murdered to try to escape from facing the consequence of committing, and admitting to, another murder. Just another crap ploy to do the same thing with a lawyer running as screen.

Hey! Firing Squad! Aim right between the eyes!!!


7 posted on 06/11/2010 4:46:04 PM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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Ok, no problemo. No firing squad for you.

“Here’s your ice floe, have a nice ride”.

buh bayh


8 posted on 06/11/2010 4:47:48 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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I didn't know there were any states that actually used the firing squad any longer. That is just OUT-FREAKING-STANDING.

He murdered two innocent people on two separate occasions? Shoot the bastard.

9 posted on 06/11/2010 4:48:46 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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If his change brings his victim back to life I would say pardon Him.

VICTIMS.

10 posted on 06/11/2010 4:49:49 PM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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Utah law allowed Gardner to choose execution by firing squad rather than lethal injection because he was sentenced before 2004, when lethal injection became the state's default execution method. He chose firing squad.
11 posted on 06/11/2010 4:50:06 PM PDT by ColdOne
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“Here’s your ice floe, have a nice ride”.

Excellent, he could do community service saving the polar bears!

12 posted on 06/11/2010 4:50:09 PM PDT by PROCON (Proudly Served U.S. Army 6/69-1/72 & 12/75-1/82)
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He murdered two innocent people on two separate occasions? Shoot the bastard.

Multiple times. Starting at the knees.

13 posted on 06/11/2010 4:51:45 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (The shattered skulls of tyrants should be used for traction under the boots of justice. T. Nugent)
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Yup I believe he did, do lets not disappoint him!
14 posted on 06/11/2010 4:52:49 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (REGISTERED RIGHT WING THUG!)
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Mr. Gardner has been on death row since the Reagan Administration.

Isn’t that long enough to wait for justice to be served?


15 posted on 06/11/2010 4:54:33 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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Utah law allowed Gardner to choose execution by firing squad rather than
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HBO(?) had a show called “OZ” and one of the characters on death row got a reprieve when given his choice of execution, he chose “STONING”. No one had the gonads to allow it to happen.


16 posted on 06/11/2010 4:56:25 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 ) FIRE ALL INCUMBENTS)
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To: PROCON

There has never been an excuse so weak that an anti-death penalty attorney has failed to try it.


17 posted on 06/11/2010 4:56:27 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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I don’t understand why Death row Inmate have such a long stay anyway? I think I read he’s been there for over a decade...Our judicial system needs serious reform. Appeals are not a lottery for being released, while waiting indefinitely for a far off execution, they’re to be quick and speedy also.

The problem is that poor police work, and corrupt prosecutors often portray innocent (wo)men as guilty, and so we always here the stats of the innocent who are subsequently released.


18 posted on 06/11/2010 4:57:08 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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How about a nice meal

http://deadmaneating.blogspot.com/

19 posted on 06/11/2010 4:58:29 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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If his parents were abusive, they deserve public condemnation, but this guy still earned his death sentence. If he’s converted and changed, he’ll be rewarded in the next life.


20 posted on 06/11/2010 5:01:13 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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