Posted on 06/17/2010 6:28:06 PM PDT by Colofornian
Utah death-row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner is set to be executed by a firing squad on Friday. Thirty-five states allow the death penalty, but death by firing squad remains an option only in Utah.
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Every detail of April 2, 1985, is burned into her memory. Gardner was in court on a murder charge when he tried to escape. An accomplice slipped him a gun, and he shot and killed an attorney and also severely wounded George "Nick" Kirk, who was a bailiff. Kirk didn't die, but VelDean Kirk says he wasn't the same active, cheerful man anymore. She says his final years were marked by excruciating pain and depression from a sedentary life.
His daughter, Tami Stewart, feels sorry for Gardner, but she can't forgive him. She imagines him in the death chamber. "He's going to feel that fear that he put into every one of those men. He's done. We've given him more than enough," Stewart says.
Gardner did get one choice: how he would die. In court, after being told he'd exhausted his appeals, the 49-year-old made his preference known.
"I would like the firing squad, please," he told the court...
...Utah's last firing-squad execution 14 years ago attracted more than 150 news crews from across the globe. They were interested in one thing: the method of execution.
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Utah historian Will Bagley says the reason this method of execution exists is rooted in Utah's history as a Mormon sanctuary. "I think we need to be honest about it. We have the last firing squads in the country as a legacy of Mormon theology," Bagley says.
Some early Mormon leaders believed in blood atonement for the most egregious sins. "To atone for those, Jesus' blood didn't count. You had to shed your own blood," Bagley says.
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Typical LDS spin and lies. Always changing doctrine and covering up history.
WHY in the Hell can’t they just be honest?!?!?
Blood atonement placemarker.
I don’t see the lies.
Brigham Young would always use this style of teaching and if one were to read more they would see it was to keep the attention of those so when he finished he would show the Lord’s had a better way.
These fools today do understand good story telling!
I don’t how many post in the pass ten years I have corrected these sound bites yet the same characters would slip in these canards over and over trying to make them true to justify their pain for not being able to walk the walk and recent those of us who at least try to practice the things the Lord shows us.
There is no Church that can come close to keeping order like the Lord’s Church.
Hey, continue right ahead: Type multiple posts in almost a single stroke...
...from the recent speed-of-all speed typing classes you must have taken...
...all as you simultaneously took an Evelyn Woods speed-reading classes...
...all as you reeled off lucid posts minus no time for editing them and no-to-little evidence of cut & paste jobs...
Bla Bla Bla...
The world would go a lot better if there were more honesty.
or is this a different strokes moment ?
Is he dead yet?
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Well I understand there is big money in spreading these falsehoods.
The same old stories that have been redone year after year.
Many many of the post here are the ideas or words of another passed of as there own. I can't say that I have seen any original thought in this thread. And they we talk of plagiarism
Interesting; have you heard the story about Joseph Smith, Jr. finding out what was untrue about Presbyterianism? This story is retold by the LDS often, in connection with converting Christians away from their "abominable creeds" and into tithing to the "true" church (big money in that, as you know.) Oh, and tell us more about the cureloms in the Book of Mormon, while you're at it.
P.S. Don't think we haven't noticed that you only want to talk to each other instead of answering our posts.
You are full of it and I know it and so does God!
That's because it's full of quotes from YOUR prophets! Pull your head out of the sand; you look like a curelom...
Reaganaut’s gone to bed, but yes, she is full of the Holy Spirit, as God knows. I’m glad you recognize it now, too!
Keep sweet!
I never heard of this before what is this a new rule?
When you post a thread you need sources but if one post they can to choose to source, there have been times I saw things that were not sourced and never was it removed
Are you the Bias one just wondering this is new to me!
These have been answered over and over.
Can the truth be handled ? I think not. some just keep fighting.
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