According to Ormon, he first realized that the aviator was in trouble when he heard him shout, "Here I go." This shout, he says, was repeated three times as the biplane crashed sideways to the ground.
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Usually, by choice, the doomed man is strapped into a scarred old chair facing the firing-squad enclosure 23 feet away. His head is hooded, and a white cloth heart, trimmed in red, is pinned to his chest. Precisely at sunup, five .30-30 rifles-one loaded with a blank—do the job. Utah's unique tradition has its own gallows humor. Just before he was shot in 1960 for killing a uranium miner, James W. Rodgers made a last request: a bulletproof vest
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"The last two words I ever heard Ruppert Sargent say, and I still hear them nightly now, and that's 'grenades.' He said it twice," Watty Smith told...