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Ronnie Lee Gardner sits down after he was shot
while trying to escape in 1985.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Police ready Ronnie Lee Gardner, 23, for transport to the hospital
after he was wounded in
a bloody
escape attempt at Metropolitan Hall of Justice during a 1985 escape
attempt.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in helped on to a guerney after he was shot
trying to escape in 1985.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in 1985.
(Paul Fraughton/The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in 1985.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in 1985.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in 1990.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner in 1991.
(The Salt Lake Tribune file photo)
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Ronnie Lee Gardner is seen as he enters a Sandy
courtroom for arraignment in 1994.
(Kristan Jacobsen, Deseret News archives)