article_snippet: Utah's last firing squad execution was that of murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010.
article_snippet: Utah's last firing squad execution was pronounced dead just two minutes after the 12:15 am execution at 12:17 am.
article_snippet: Protest: Randy Gardner of Salt Lake City, the older brother of Ronnie Lee Gardner, the last inmate to be killed by firing squad in Utah in 2010, protests with a group opposed to capital punishment in January .
article_snippet: Utah's last execution was by a firing squad in 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by five police officers with .30-caliber
article_snippet: Utah State Prison (right) after Ronnie Lee Gardner (left) was executed by firing squad on Friday, June 18, 2010 in Draper Utah .
article_snippet: Ronnie Lee Gardner was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m. the state has carried out three executions by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
article_snippet: The first U.S. inmate executed after that ruling was Gary Gilmore, who was killed by firing squad in early 1997.
article_snippet: One such case appears to have happened in Utah's territorial days back in 1879, when a firing squad missed Wallace Wilkerson's heart and it took Wallace Wilkerson's 27 minutes to die, according to newspaper accounts.
highlights_snippet: Ralph Dellapiana, director of Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty called firing squads 'a relic of a more barbaric past'
  Utah's last execution was by a firing squad in 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by five officers with .30-caliber