Unforgiven Utah's Executed Men

Since the days of "frontier justice" and "blood atonement, " Utah has struggled with issues of capital punishment. Years after the Mountain Meadows massacre, John D. Lee was shot to death seated on his coffin in a theatrical, media-conscious staging, while some fifty other perpetrators went unpunished. Despite pleas for clemency from the daughter of an LDS church president and others, labor reformer Joe Hill was executed, due as much to corporate indignation as to the merits of the case against him.Gillespie, L. Kay is the author of 'Unforgiven Utah's Executed Men' with ISBN 9781560850045 and ISBN 1560850043.