Utah was the state with the first execution after the...

Utah was the state with the first execution after the death penalty was reinstated. Gary Gilmore, a volunteer, was executed by firing squad in 1977, three months after his conviction. Utah had one execution by lethal injection this year who was also a volunteer. On October 15, 35-year-old Joseph Mitchell Parsons was executed by injection for fatally stabbing a man in 1987. "I've been under a sentence of death for 11 years and I honestly don't see anything good coming out of it," Parsons told a magistrate earlier this year. "I've made my peace with myself and my family and it's time to move on."