Stories like this are some of the worst. 26-year-old preschool teacher Kimberly Evans fell into the raging water while hiking near a waterfall in Bells Canyon a couple weeks back. A day later rescuers still hadn’t found her and I was sent out to photograph the story. The police wouldn’t let me up to photograph [...]
At 4am Friday I was done covering the execution. I sat down and wrote all I could remember… My first stop is to the media area, set up at the police academy. To get into the parking lot I have to show my press pass at a roadblock. Once in there are patrols of police [...]
The meeting was very quick. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole would announce their decision. Gardner would either be executed or his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole. It was very tense. I trained my camera on the victims’ families. The Board announced its unanimous decision not to commute Gardner’s sentence. The [...]
The final witness on day one of the commutation hearing is the offender, Ronnie Lee Gardner. He’s sworn in and makes a statement, then answers questions. His lawyer reads a letter Gardner wrote to Oprah, hoping to get her financial help in starting up a farm for neglected and abused children on some land he [...]
Day one of the commutation hearing. Get to the state prison at the crack of dawn. Leave everything in the car other than my ID and the photo gear that has been previously approved. Also left in my car is a photo editor who will edit and transmit my photos. The hearing is scheduled to [...]
