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Notches on a Chair. Utah Firing Squad
Larrowe, Charles P. | April 14, 1956 issue

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Ever since capital punishment was first officially used in Utah, the state has given a condemned man a macabre choice— he can be shot by a firing squad or he can swing by a noose. Of the forty-one men executed in the history of the state, only five have chosen hanging. The longest and most complicated legal battle in Utah criminal history has been waged to save Vern Braasch and Melvin Sullivan from execution, but they have lost their last appeal. To most Utahns, the execution is long overdue. The youths committed a brutal, senseless murder, and they have admitted their guilt.

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CAPITAL punishment; EXECUTIONS & executioners; ACTIONS & defenses; BRAASCH, Vern; SULLIVAN, Melvin; UTAH; UNITED States
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