As Utah prepares for its first execution since 2010, anti-death penalty activist Randy Gardner shares his personal connection to capital punishment
Randy Gardner on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, helps distribute anti- capital punishment shirts and posters outside the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt lake City ahead of the scheduled execution of Taberon Honie on Aug. 8. Gardner 's brother, Ronnie Lee Gardner , was the last death row inmate to be executed in the state of Utah in 2010.
Leading up to Thursday, when Honie's sentence is scheduled to be carried out at 12:01 a.m., a group opposing capital punishment is holding a series of events that began Friday at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. Gardner recounted a demonstration he attended leading up to a pivotal event in his life, when was wearing a shirt that stated, "Why do we kill people who kill people that show that killing is wrong?""'Why do we dad?'" Gardner said, recalling his daughter's words. "'That don't make sense.'"Gardner knows all too well how the death penalty process plays out.
Randy Gardner said his involvement with DPA and other groups has opened his eyes to the number of people who've been on death row and were exonerated before their sentences were carried out."There's almost 200 people since 1973 that's been exonerated that's been on death row," he said. "Probably 50 of them I know personally."However, the death penalty Gardner is protesting is not a case where the death row inmate claims innocence.
That request was not granted, though. Just over a week later, a firing squad "fired a volley of bullets into the murderer's chest, where a target was pinned over his heart,"It was just after his little brother was sentenced that Randy Gardner became involved in advocacy.Ahead of Honie's death, Gardner still decried the death penalty, but added that he was glad the execution wouldn't be carried out in the same manner as his brother's.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regards the question of whether and in what circumstances the state should impose capital punishment as a matter to be decided solely by the prescribed processes of civil law,"Gardner at the discussion mused on what would happen if the state's major religion did take a stance.
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