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ornotna

(10,800 posts)

6. Utah still does this

Reply to Marius25 (Original post)

Wed Nov 25, 2020, 12:26 PM

Nov 2020

Gary Gillmore is the one that comes to mind first.

The last time a firing squad was used in the U.S. was in 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Utah for the 1984 murder of an attorney during a failed courthouse escape.

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