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Utah Set to Execute Convicted Killer Ronnie Lee Gardner by Firing Squad

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Source: CBS News

SALT LAKE CITY (CBS/AP) The state of Utah is scheduled to execute convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad on June 18 after a judge signed a warrant for his execution, according to The Associated Press.

State court Judge Robin Reese signed the warrant Friday morning in a Salt Lake City courtroom.

The 49-year-old has been on Utah's death row for 25 years. After Reese said Gardner's avenues for appeal are exhausted and that he would sign the warrant, Gardner said, "I would like the firing squad, please."

Gardner would be the western state's first death row inmate executed since Joseph Mitchell Parsons died by lethal injection in 1999.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003295-504083.html

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