High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joseph Mitchell "Yogi" Parsons (August 1964 – October 15, 1999) was an American who was sentenced to death for the August 1987 murder of Richard Lynn Ernest. After killing Ernest at a remote rest area in Utah, Parsons assumed his identity and continued to insist that he was Ernest when he was later arrested. Parsons chose to die by lethal injection, avoiding the publicity that John Albert Taylor, the previous prisoner to be executed in Utah, sought by selecting the firing squad. Parsons shunned attention and described himself as "Utah's forgotten inmate." Parsons, who also called himself the "Rainbow Warrior," stated that he killed Ernest to fend off a homosexual advance, but was unable to present any evidence to support this claim in his defense. Parsons' 1999 execution at Utah State Prison was the first to be carried out in a new chamber designed for both lethal injections and firing squads.

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