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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So, you found ONE guy, who is a televangelist (I never trust those guys anyway).
What about all those in ministry to the LDS? Find any there?
Christian Bible ???
For mormonism ???
I just know what was in his file. I do know that he asked to see an LDS bishop last night and considered himself LDS.
I can’t believe you posted that. Who holds the copyright on the Bible? Who has EVER been sued for quoting it? That’s just a stupid joke, right?
Good riddance indeed.
Yes there was I have been trying to ask Jesus but that id not what he is telling me. I guess he is having you pass it on. I would like to get it directly. I will ask again to night. Is this written first hand.
Kid its not going to work...
you are not going to have it both ways
EPIC FAIL..
Do you have proof of that statement ?
Must be an impotent feeling being on the wrong side of an argument, so acting like a juvenile and throwing out the “hate” word because that’s all you’ve got left is not unexpected.
Personal experience. I worked for his prison shrink and I typed up the notes.
Well good. You will be able to release the notes.
Yep and your new lay bishop will have no formal theological training, will not be trained in marriage counseling, will not be trained in counseling youth.
Your new lay bishop will be so busy with his day job, his home, and his ward, his stake obligations, the demands from members of the ward, the interminable amount of meetings that he must attend to all week, that his family will suffer because of the extracurricular demands placed on him. He will not get to reap the fruits of the Family Proclamation issued by SLC by being able to put his family first. By putting the needs of others first, he is shirking his duty to his family.
He will be too busy “working” for “free”.
And SLC continues to keep their overhead down by convincing people that it’s “the work of the lord”.
The turnover rate for bishops here in my area of SoCal is about once a year. Not 5 years as you mentioned.
Because YOU say so? LOL!
Good answer.
Kid get in line...
we’re all still waiting for the notes from Joey Smith..
1. about why he found Presbyterianism to be untrue...
2. about why mormons think the “personages” he saw were God the Father and Jesus, God the Son
3. about why Joey Smith thought the Church that the LORD Jesus Christ built that has lasted these past 2000 years ever needed “restoring”...
4. about why Joey Smith claimed that God was once a man...
5. about why Joey Smith claimed that the Blood that Jesus shed on the Cross was not enough to save mankind “to the uttermost”
Wheres those notes ???
I’m sure you will be able to release those notes...
Still waiting...
Because Joey Smith said so ???
ROFLMBO
and not sourcing any of it either...
wasnt there a civil law suit in the threads yesterday about sourcing ???
That's just plain loony. Can't believe that was actually posted.
WHAT 'covenant' I saw NOTHING like that in the Scriptures posted!
thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
I KNOW there are COVENANT BREAKERS in MORMONism: have THEY dropped dead?
You should see what MORMON 'elders' do not know!
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