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Feb 15, 2015
"Utah House votes to resurrect firing squads," USA Today
With lethal injection under review by the U.S. Supreme Court, the
Utah House of Representatives on Friday approved legislation to resume
executions by firing squad, which were halted in 2004.The bill,
which narrowly cleared the Republican-controlled chamber, faces
uncertain prospects in the GOP-dominated Senate, and Republican Gov.
Gary Herbert has not said whether he would sign it into law.The
measure comes amid a shortage of execution drugs, which pharmaceutical
companies are refusing to provide, and the Supreme Court's decision last
month to block three executions in Oklahoma as it reviews the
three-drug cocktail the state uses to put inmates to death.
