Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Courtesy of ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Department of Corrections will provide the attorneys for a Utah death row inmate with information about the state's methods of execution. At a 3rd District Court hearing ...

Convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner is scheduled to be executed by firing squad tonight, unless he is granted a stay by the governor. Gardner, 49, was sentenced to death for a 1985 capital murder ...

Randy Gardner still struggles four years later to talk about seeing his brother’s bullet-ridden body at the mortuary after he was executed. Ronnie Lee Gardner was the last person to die by firing ...

Ronnie Lee Gardner, a death-row inmate convicted of captial murder in 1985 for killing an attorney during an attempted courthouse escape, was excuted by a firing squad last night.

SALT LAKE CITY — Midnight in the firing squad chamber approaches for Ronnie Lee Gardner — a self-described ``nasty little bugger'' — whose childhood of neglect, drug-addiction and ever-escalating ...