Firing squads are making a comeback, and Idaho is on the verge of becoming the fifth state to use the execution method.
that this week, Idaho’s legislature passed legislation allowing death by firing squad, stressing that this was passed by veto-proof margins.
The AP observed that the use of firing squads has become, to many, one of the “alternatives to lethal injections after pharmaceuticals barred the use of their drugs.”
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