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| No Stay Of Execution For Gardner |
| By sltrib.com |
| Published: 06/16/2010 |
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For the second time in a week, a federal judge has refused to issue a stay of execution for Ronnie Lee Gardner, who is scheduled to be put to death by a firing squad early Friday. Lawyers for Gardner wanted time to pursue a claim that a commutation hearing before the Board of Pardons and Parole had been "hopelessly biased" against their client. But at the conclusion of a hearing on Tuesday evening, U.S. district judge Tena Campbell said that argument was unlikely to prevail. "I simply cannot grant, on the evidence I have before me, the motion for the stay," the judge said. Outside court, Andrew Parnes, one of Gardner's lawyers, said he will appeal the decision to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More. |
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