When a person is placed on Death Row, usually, people think their final moments are bleak - but one person’s last hours have ...

Ronnie Lee Gardner listens to proceedings during his commutation hearing at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, Thursday, June 10, 2010. Nine days before he was set to be executed by a five-man ...

Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted killer in Utah, was executed by firing squad Firday morning. It has been 14 years since rifles were last fired in a state execution.

DRAPER, Utah -- Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets early today as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years.

Ronnie Lee Gardner (Mug Shot) DRAPER, Utah (CBS/AP/KUTV) At 12:17 a.m. Friday, convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was pronounced dead after a Utah firing squad fired a volley of bullets into the ...

Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets early Friday as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years. Shortly before the shooting, Gardner was strapped ...

News; Lawyers for Ronnie Lee Gardner to appeal to Utah Supreme Court for stay of execution by firing squad. Published: ; Jun. 09, 2010, 2:53 p.m.

Ronnie Lee Gardner had been on death row since 1985. Gardner wouldn't have seen the law enforcement officers who volunteered to carry out the death sentence.

Ronnie Lee Gardner appears before Judge Robin Reese at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, where Gardner's execution date was set. Gardner, a 49-year-old convicted killer, is set to be ...

The event where his daughter asked about the death penalty was the execution of Randy Gardner's little brother, Ronnie. Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was convicted for the murders of Melvyn Otterstrom ...

A barrage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner's chest where a target had been pinned over his heart. Two minutes later, the twice-convicted killer was pronounced dead as blood pooled in his ...

A firing squad executed a convicted killer today, US prison officials said. Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, was shot dead in Utah by a team of five anonymous marksmen with a matched set of .30-calibre rifles.