Convicted killer gets his dying wish... execution by FIRING SQUAD after U.S. judge gives green light
A convicted killer will be executed by firing squad in the U.S. state of Utah after a judge last night agreed to the inmate's request. Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, was given the choice of being killed by lethal injection or shot by a five-man team of executioners firing from a set of matched rifles - a rarely used method of execution that harkens back to to the Wild West. 'I would like the firing squad, please,' Gardner told state court Judge Robin Reese after hearing his avenues for appeal appear to be exhausted.