Ronnie Lee Gardner to die by firing squad.

It's not one person murdering another, it's the people of that state saying that individual cannot cope with normal society, and whose crime was bad enough and the evidence strong enough that the individual was sentenced the death penalty.

The death penalty absolutely is murder. You take an unarmed man, and kill him. You may add whatever rituals, procedures, and slick word-games you want to try and rationalize this, but you are killing someone in cold blood. This to me is a state-sanctioned murder, no matter how detestable the victim of the death penalty may be.

The death penalty is generally not ordered by a judge in a case unless there is virtually 100% certainty of the verdict.

Virtually one-hundred percent? Virtually? That is unacceptable. If one innocent person has died because of the death penalty, then it is a monstrosity. Over the last decade there have been on average 5.5 exonerations per year for death row inmates. The death penalty is cruel, unusual, heinous, and based on these numbers gross negligence on the part of our government.