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Show I Condemned Men Taken to Utah State Prison The two convicted murderers of Howard D. (Duke) Manzione were taken from the Cedar City jail Friday at 10:30 a. m. and were escorted to the state prison pri-son in Salt Lake City to await their execution set for Thursday, Thurs-day, February 16. Arthur Nelson, Iron county sheriff, and Jasper Puffer, Beaver Bea-ver county sheriff, conducted the condemned men by train to the state prison. Both Vern Alfred Braasch, 24, and Melvin LeRoy Sullivan, 19, were placed in the "death row" at the prison, bringing the total to six men in that section. Having had a choice between hanging and shooting, the two men will face an Iron county firing squad on February 16. Their sentence was handed down last Thursday bv Fifth Judicial District Judge Will L. Hoyt in Parowan. They had been convicted convict-ed by a jury a week earlier for the first degree murder of Manzione Man-zione at Beaver in the early hours of October 22. No leniency was recommended by the jury, and the full death penalty was given for the crime. |