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Idaho allows execution by firing squad if lethal injection is unavailable
[GEO.TV] The legislature of the western US state, Idaho, has passed a bill on Monday that authorises the use of a firing squad as a means of execution in the event that lethal injection is unavailable for death row inmates. If I take my poor old dog to the vet to have her put down and they're out of whatever it is they use are they gonna shoot her? Same idea. Why won't the same meds they used on my dogs work, by the way? It's not like it'd kill them... Well, I guess it would. Idaho would become the fifth US state to approve execution by firing squad, after Utah, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and South Carolina, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre. Since 1976 and the end of a brief moratorium on the death penalty  in the United States, two men and a woman have been executed in this way -- all in Utah, also in the west. The last one was 2010.The US states which have the death penalty have been experiencing great difficulty in obtaining the chemical components necessary for a lethal injection, due to opposition by pharmaceutical companies which do not want to be associated with executions. Death by firing squad would occur in Idaho only if a lethal injection were not possible. Posted by: Fred 2023-03-21 |
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