11-03-2015 17:49 via theguardian.com

Utah lawmakers vote to bring back execution by firing squad

State would shoot prisoners if lethal injection drugs were unavailable under provisions that are yet to be signed into law by the governorUtah lawmakers voted on Tuesday to resurrect the firing squad as an alternative method of executing condemned inmates in the event the state runs out of lethal injection drugs.
Faced with a nationwide scarcity ofexecution drugs, the Utah senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow the state to resume using the firing squad more than a decade afte
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