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Utah, you have done this 3 times. Now help us stop it.

States Newsroom · October 21, 2026

Utah, you have done this three times since 1977. Gary Gilmore. John Albert Taylor. Ronnie Lee Gardner. Five rifles. A chair. A hood. A white target pinned over the heart. Sandbags stacked behind the chair so the bullets would not ricochet off the cinderblock. For 48 years, every firing squad execution in America was…

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Utah, you have done this 3 times. Now help us stop it.

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