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Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16 1961 – June 18 2010) was an American criminal who received the death penalty for murder in 1985 and was executed by firing squad by the state of Utah in 2010. Gardner’s case spent nearly 25 years in the court system prompting the Utah House of Representatives to introduce legislation to limit the number of appeals in capital cases.In October 1984 Gardner killed Melvyn John Otterstrom during a robbery in Salt Lake City.