Utah to Use Firing Squad

Death Penalty

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 10:16AM EDT / Published Apr. 23, 2010 10:52AM EDT

Utah is set to execute prisoner Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad after a judge approved his request to die by the grisly method on Friday. Utah is the only state to keep the firing squad on the books as a method of execution; typically, it uses lethal injection but prisoners are given a choice. Gardner killed a lawyer 25 years ago during a shootout. Utah has executed two other prisoners by firing squad since the Supreme Court legalized the death penalty in 1976.

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Utah to Use Firing Squad