Ronnie Lee Gardner Firing Squad Execution Video Available

San Francisco (GaeaTimes.com) - Ronnie Lee Gardner Firing Squad Execution Video is one of the hottest searches in Google at the moment. This is the first time Utah used the firing squad to carry out a death sentence in 14 years. A target was pinned over Ronnie Lee Gardner’s heart for the fire squad. After bullets tore him and blood pooled in his dark blue jumpsuit two minutes later, he was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m.

Ronnie Lee Gardner is the third man to die before firing squad after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Five certified police officers volunteered for his execution. The anonymous executioners stood about 25 feet away behind a wall with a gunport. They were armed with a .30 caliber Winchester Rifles. One of the rifles were loaded with a blank so that no one can know who fired the fatal shot. Sandbags were stacked behind Ronnie Lee Gardner’s chair to keep bullets from ricocheting around the cinderblock room.

The countdown began, 5-4-3… and the shooters started to fire at the count 2. When Ronnie Lee Gardner was hit, his arm tensed and jerked back; the medical examiner revealed that his head was tilted back and to the right and his mouth slightly open.

I don’t agree with what he done or what they done but I’m relieved he’s free

said Randy Gardner Ronnie Lee Gardner’s brother, after the execution.

He’s had a rough life. He’s been incarcerated and in chains his whole damn life, now he’s free. I’m happy he’s free, just sad the way he went.