These Curious Facts About The Past Will Reshape Anyone’s Sense Of Time

The last person to die by firing squad did so in 2010

Death by firing squad sounds like a terribly gruesome way to go. One would think this punishment would have been outlawed for centuries already, but that’s not the case. The last person to die in this manner died in the year 2010.

For comparison’s sake, the animated movie Toy Story 3 premiered on the same exact day that Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah. This was the last US state to outlaw that style of the death sentence.