"Death row inmate in Utah chooses to face firing squad; Critics troubled by spectacle of Old West justice" by Jennifer Dobner, Associated Press | April 24, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad in June after a judge agreed yesterday to the inmate’s request for the method, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice....
We need more of that around here.
The repeal of the firing squad was not tied to any discomfort with the method itself. Rather, state lawmakers disliked the heaps of negative media attention that firing squads focused on the state, said Representative Sheryl Allen, a Republican from Bountiful, who twice carried legislation to change the law....
Yeah, the KILLING DOESN'T BOTHER THEM!
Lydia Kalish, Amnesty International’s death penalty abolition coordinator for Utah, said her organization opposes the state’s effort to see Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, executed. But despite Utah’s strong religious roots — it’s the home of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — most here support the use of the death penalty.
Also see: Mormons More Faithful Than Government
But they are not Jewish, so....
Also see: Gay of Division in the Boston Globe
Reason Number Three Why No One Reads the Boston Globe Anymore
Here are reasons one: one and two.
“I think in Utah, when it suits their purposes, they go back to the Old Testament and the ‘eye for an eye’ kind of thing,’’ Kalish said. “These people may be the worst of the worst, but if the best we can do is repeat the same thing, it’s so obviously wrong.’’
Yeah, that will make everyone blind, won't it?
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