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Richard Dieter on the Utah Execution

By Steve Hall

"Firing squad execution underscores inhumanity of death penalty," is the title of Richard Dieter's commentary at Jurist.  He's the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Gardner got the kind of execution he wanted--death by firing squad--and Utah finally got what it wanted--retribution for the murder Gardner had committed twenty-five years ago. We the people (and in this case, there was a worldwide audience) probably scratched our heads wondering what that was all about. And: But while the firing squad is clearly on the way out, executions by lethal injection continue under a cloak of antiseptic obscurity. The death penalty is winding down, as overwhelming evidence in this country and around the world demonstrates...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).