Salt Lake City, Utah. La diocesi contro la pena di morte

(AP Photo/George Frey)

23/04/2010 - John Wester, with the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City talks to reporters at a news conference held by “Utahans for the Alternative to the Death Penalty” at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The news conference was held before a court hearing for Ronnie Lee Gardner where a death warrant might be issued for a killing in 1985. Under state law, Gardner, 49, decides whether he wants to be killed by lethal injection or be shot by a five-man team of executioners firing from a set of matched rifles, a rarely used relic that harkens back to Utah’s territorial history.