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It's only been five years since Utah executed someone with a firing squad.
With this new legislation, can victims' relatives volunteer for the firing squad and will the procedure of one blank among five rounds fired be used. Or will there be a single device with multiple barrels with a single trigger on an automated switch. Instead of a .30 caliber round, as a last request, could the prisoner request the m855 green-tip 5.56mm round or an ecologically "green", bismuth, unleaded round.
We do know that in the
Godwin case, the non-ballistic execution methods now seen as ineffective were used after the costs of bullets became prohibitive in terms of fatality production. The 20th Century's modern capitalist entrepreneurship and innovation will soon take hold of some 21st Century revenue sources.
Will Futurama Suicide Booths have a firearms option? Will gun executions be subcontracted to a private PIC firm, and most importantly which company (TRUtv, MSNBC, Bravo) gets the reality TV rights to such snuff filming because pitching a specific program of LEO body/dash cam footage with "suicide by police" content is certainly within broadcast or PPV possibility.
Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved a bill that would clear the way for executions by firing squad if the state can’t find drugs to use in lethal injections...
Herbert’s decision is expected this month. If he signs the bill into law, Utah would become the only state to allow firing squads as a method for execution when there is a drug shortage. Some states have struggled with tracking down execution drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
In the wake of a bungled execution in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker wants to resurrect firing squads as a method of execution in his state. Rep. Paul Ray, a Republican from Clearfield, says firing squads would be a quick and humane way to put someone to death as lawsuits and drug shortages have hampered lethal injections in recent years. Ray plans to introduce his proposal during Utah’s next legislative session in January.
Utah stopped allowing death-row inmates to choose execution by firing squad after 2004. Several inmates sentenced before that time have opted for firing squad executions but are appealing their sentences.
Utah last used the method in 2010, when a firing squad of five police officers with .30-caliber Winchester rifles executed Ronnie Lee Gardner.
Need a new box for Driver's Licenses:
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I request to be an organ donor only in cases where executed prisoners do not choose the firing squad"
Organs by firing squad: the medical and moral implausibility of death penalty organ procurement.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/16/eight-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states/