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.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Yes LOL p..p my ride said
Who really cares about truth and putting things into perspective...
You've been shown the truth, from the very words of your own prophets, but you deny that they mean anything at all because the new prophet tells you to. That's not a new and permanent restoration of the truth of the Gospel. If revelations last only as long as they are convenient, then you tell me who was lying: the prophet then, or the prophet now?
I guess I didn't hold their hand.
But I think the source was not liked.
The software controls are on the article.
Posters have been banned for repeatedly smuggling copyright restricted information as reply posts to circumvent those controls.
They would also be at risk by repeatedly trying to post from banned sources as reply posts.
Also, plagiarism discredits the poster and the forum.
And I am not a ‘bigot’, I oppose MormonISM
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I see you are trying out slick type of marketing for your propaganda!
You sound like the regualar RM
The source must be shown with each reply post excerpting from it.
Wrong.....Utah and Oklahoma still have firing squads....what a stupid assumption for an Historian to make!
The “antis” all care about the truth, and about you, too! We keep quoting your prophets to put these things into perspective, so that you can see the truth that Mormonism was just made up as it went along. It is not based on any revelation from God, and it puts you in danger of going to Hell by denying the Gospel. This is the truth in perspective: we love you!
I'm thinking when the site has some thing that who ever has the power to remove the post doesn't like then it's removed other wise it's OK. In one case they claimed that I was trying to infect peoples computers. Now this really offends me.
anti LDS have nothing but too gnash their teeth sinse they could not endure to the end!
we must mention that there are some sins for which the blood of Christ alone does not cleanse a person.
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So you think those who deny the Holy Ghost once they have receive a witness should be patted on the head..
In order to understand what Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Charles W. Penrose and others have said, we must mention that there are some sins for which the blood of Christ alone does not cleanse a person.
These include blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (as defined by the Church)
and that murder which is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice.
However, and this cannot be stressed too strongly, this law has not been given to the Church at any time in this dispensation.
It has no application whatever to anyone now living whether he is a member or a non-member of the Church.
LOL
What is it you don’t think we suffer fools enough...
It is very clear the anti take joy in being agitators
mesery loves company even if they have to foment it!
you two must wear matching hip booths!
That is for a thread
This is the first time I saw this complaint for a poster I have witness many times the antis in the past would post something I knew came from some anti LDS site and did not source it...
Well it works both ways they better in the furture include their source.
“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.”
I think that this is totally wrong.
Historically, death by firing squad is considered an HONORABLE death.
Historically, a murderer of his kind certainly does not deserve an honorable death.
The historically proper method of execution for a murderer is by HANGING.
Utah should NOT allow murderers to choose a honorable death.
Those dad gummed mormons are just too danged nice.
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