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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Keep repeating the mantra.
(But be SURE that youy click your heels together THREE times, first.)
I am not surprised...
HMMmmm...
You SURE know a lot of show tunes...
Not mine to release.
SHE?
Polygamy was outlawed in UTAH in 1890.
I long suspected you don't read the MORMON publications that we post in these threads...
Ya gotta watch the LANGUAGE!
Oh YEAH; Wormwood?
That’s just plain loony
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AH arnt you the one giving credibility to MORMONISM ???
But the Truth is easy to work with. No paring, no fear of contradicting myself, not having to keep my story straight.
Saves a lot of time.
LOL. I’m not sure how I feel about the upcoming movie, but it is one of my favorite books.
Did you ever hear about the video game “afterlife”?
Yeah; like in...
You can't say that "Blue Moose is lying", but you CAN say, "The things Blue Moose posted are LIES from the headquarters of Salt Lake City."
Right RM??
If you are going to help MORMONs against us ANTIs; at LEAST learn enough to detect the innuendoes tossed about.
In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.
I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.
Ezra Taft Benson
(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)
TN accidently left the /sarc tag off...
...but MOST of us knew what she was saying anyway. We decypher Restyisms all the time...
Nope.
Too old to be a gamer. (Too darn CHEAP, too!)
However in this case the answer I gave was actually 4, and the sources, or in this case actions in evidence, agree with that answer.
The Mormon vs. Mormonism question has been answered and the veracity is proven time and time again as we “Inmans” always pray for the issues our Mormon friends have as well as our hope that they see the light, and we often inquire of them when they express concerns and offer help.
That is not something you do for those you “hate”...
Is is the trap of Mormonism Cult we take issue with, for that is where the errors and other problems lie. To allow good people to walk blindly into the arms of the Evil One when we posses the knowledge that will lead to salvation, now that would be hating Mormons...
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