Death Penalty = Revenge/Murder. In Utah on July 30, 1992, African-American William Andrews was executed, becoming the first in Utah who did not actually kill anyone to receive the death penalty. He was executed despite the presence of a note found by a juror depicting a stick figure on a gallows with the inscription: "Hang the Nigger's (sic)." Even after seeing this evidence of racial prejudice within the all-white jury, the white trial judge never sought to determine who wrote the note or how many jurors saw it. See J. Yang, A Rallying Point for Blacks in Utah, Washington Post, Feb. 26, 1992, at A4-5. [MORE] Mr. Andrews was tried by a predominantly Mormon jury at a time when that religion preached that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

Mr. Andrews was not present when the murders took place. He did not administer Drano to the victims; he poured it into a cup at his accomplice's orders and fled the scene after pleading for his victims. The jury, never sequestered, was exposed to highly prejudicial news media. Mr. Andrews's lawyer had been out of law school less than a year. While African-Americans are less than one-half percent of Utah's population, at the time, they accounted for 25 percent of those on death row. [MORE]  [In the absence of white supremacy, niggers would not exist. MORE] Presently, Utah, a super white state, has 9 people on death row, 4 are non-white. [MORE]

From [HERE] Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions if lethal injection drugs are unavailable when racist suspect Gov. Gary Herbert [in photo] signed a law approving the method, even though he has called it "a little bit gruesome."

The Republican governor has said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execution method in case a shortage of the drugs persists.

"We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty, and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued," Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said. However, enforcing death sentences is "the obligation of the executive branch."

The governor's office noted other states allow execution methods other than lethal injection. In Washington state, inmates can request hanging. In New Hampshire, hangings are a fallback if lethal injections can't be given.

The firing squad also is on the books in Oklahoma — but as a third option to be used only if the courts someday find lethal injection and electrocution unconstitutional. The firing squad could be bumped down even further, to Oklahoma's fourth option, if lawmakers approve a bill that would authorize the use of nitrogen gas as another possible method.

Utah's use of firing squad carries no such legal caveat. Under the new law, inmates would be executed by firing squad if the state is unable to get lethal injection drugs a month in advance.

The proposal's approval represents the latest example of frustration over botched executions and the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs as manufacturers opposed to capital punishment have made them off-limits to prisons.

The bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, argued the use of trained marksmen is faster and more decent than the drawn-out deaths that occur when lethal injections go awry — or even if they go as planned.