Eerie death row meal requests - from dirt and one olive to tin of spaghetti
Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...
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Six pints, a single olive and a lump of dirt: Chilling final meal requests of death row inmates
For his last meal he requested six glasses of beer. Ronnie Lee Gardner was sentenced to death for the 1985 killing of attorney Michael Burdell during an attempted escape from a Salt Lake City ...
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Convicted killer Ralph Leroy Menzies spotlights Utah's capital punishment conundrum.
In one of Utah's most notorious cases—the so-called "Hi-Fi Killers"—Dale Selby Pierre and William Andrews, two Black airmen ...
Idaho plans to bring back firing squad as ‘preferred method of execution’
Idaho is bringing back the firing squad. Lethal injection has been the legally specified method. But shortages of the ...
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Idaho plans to bring back firing squad as ‘preferred method of execution’
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 ...
Idaho Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads for Executions
Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...
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Idaho considers archaic execution practice as 'primary method' of killing prisoners after lethal injection fails
Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to the firing squad after the execution of a convicted serial killer via lethal injection completely failed last year. State ...