The Latest: Author grateful inmate didn’t face firing squad

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a Utah death-row inmate who died in prison (all times local):
3:55 p.m.
Author Jon Krakauer says he’s grateful that a Utah death-row inmate who killed his brother’s wife and her toddler has died of natural causes and won’t be executed by firing squad in what would have been a circus of an event.
Krakauer made the comment Monday, hours after Utah prison officials said 78-year-old Ron Lafferty had died of natural causes.
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