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05/23/2003 Archived Entry: "Utah prepares for 2 firing-squad executions in June"

IT'S COOL BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT: Utah, the only state that permits the death sentence to be carried out by firing squad, will do that twice next month.

Exercising their right under Utah law, a serial killer, Roberto Arguelles, and Troy Michael Kell, a white supremacist who stabbed a fellow inmate to death, have chosen the firing squad over lethal injection and are set to die at 12:01 a.m. on June 27 and 28, respectively.

Unfortunately Kell has filed an appeal which means his execution won't take place. God willing, it will.

Read on.