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>> chase it with lemonade. >> got you sick as a dog but you got some fresh breath. put me down there in that observation cell, keep an eye on me. >> safe cell? >> yeah. take me down and weigh me every day. i lost about 13 pounds in four days. >> was the attempt to go on a hunger strike, did it accomplish what you wanted? >> i know culliver, he came down and said -- he could have just been an [ bleep ] about it and said starve yourself. but you know, he [ bleep ], right? talk about anger management classes. so he gave me the word i wouldn't be here this time next year. so that's all i want, you...

>> larry: the scheduled execution by firing squad of convicted murderer ronnie lee gardner is just hours away. right after midnight, utah time, five marksmen will point their rifles at a paper target placed over gardner's heart and fire on command. one of the rifles has a blank in it. so that the shooter won't know who the real shooter was. let's go to the latest from ted rollins who is at the utah state prison in draper. all appeals are done, right, ted? so where are we now? >> well, all of the appeals to the supreme court have come back and been denied. only thing left on the table is anothe...

Earlier in the day. that is the last thing. the last hope for ronnie gardner here as he gets closer to his execution time, right now he is an observation cell near the death chamber. he apparently has had a quiet day. the mood in the prison is somber. mood here is somber. no matter where you stand on the issue, larry having covered these before when you are getting close to an execution it is a pretty somber time. >> larry: and the firing squad is his choice, right, ted? >> yeah, he made this choice. utah is the only state that still offers this. they offered it, grand fathering it out, he was...

Ronnie lee gardner by firing squad. he's the first person to be executed by firing squad in the u.s. in 14 years. joining us from outside the prison in draper, utah, our own alicia acuna. what a bizarre way to want to go and it's my understanding he chose this. >> yes, ronnie lee gardner did make this choice to die by a firing squad. there were five men, police officers here in utah who went unidentified purposefully for their own safety and security and five of the men -- of the five men, rather, four had live rounds, .30 caliber weapons and one did not. they stood behind a portal hole and we...

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