The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison at a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era.
Under Idaho’s bill, firing squads would be used only if executioners can’t obtain the drugs required for lethal injections.
Other states have reauthorized the use of electric chairs and gas chambers — or are at least considering doing so. That’s where firing squads come in.Article contentSupreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is among those who say firing squads are a more humane method of execution. Her comments came in the case of an Alabama inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad. A Supreme Court majority refused to hear his appeal. In her dissent, Sotomayor said lethal drugs can mask intense pain by paralyzing inmates while they are still sentient.
Others note that killings by firing squad are visibly violent and bloody compared with lethal injections, potentially traumatizing victims’ relatives and other witnesses as well as executioners and staffers who clean up afterward.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.If reliability means the condemned are more likely to die as intended, then one could make that argument.
By contrast, not a single one of the 34 firing squad executions was found to have been botched, according to Sarat, who has called for an end to capital punishment. That has led to the spectacle of inmate attorneys bringing multiple cases in which they argue the merits of firing squads.
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