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DRAPER, Utah — After two days of testimony about a condemned Utah man’s journey from a life of violence to reformation, his attorney said Friday that fairness should compel a state parole board to stop his execution by firing squad.
“He came from a family that exuded criminality and violence, and that is what he was,” Ronnie Lee Gardner’s attorney, Andrew Parnes, told the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. “He’s changed, he’s overcome that.”
Gardner wants the board to reduce his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
