That was the case with the family of one of the men killed by Ronnie Lee Gardner. In October 1984, Gardner shot and killed Melvyn Otterstrom, 37, at a bar, because he didn't want to leave at closing ...

And that was just the fourth since 1976. The last person to be executed by firing squad in the US was Utah prisoner Ronnie Lee Gardner, in 2010. He had been sentenced for killing an lawyer during ...

I want the press to know this." Ronnie Lee Gardner was sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of attorney Michael Burdell, which occurred during an attempted escape from a Salt Lake City courthouse.