Utah revives plan for execution by firing squad

Utah has reinstated the option of death by firing squad if lethal injection drugs cannot be obtained 30 days before a scheduled execution.  Utah is one of 32 states in the U.S. that allow capital punishment. Utah stopped allowing inmates to choose a firing-squad execution in 2004, citing the excessive media attention it gave prisoners. Those sentenced to death before the law changed still have the option of choosing it. Under current Utah law, death by firing squad is only an option for criminals sentenced to death before 2004. It was last used in 2010. 

The Supreme Court started allowing capital punishment in 1976, and since then lethal injection is one of the most common methods used. For years, states used a three-drug combination to execute inmates, but European drug makers have refused to sell them to prisons and corrections departments out of opposition to the death penalty.

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