How many inmates have been put to death using a firing squad execution in the United States? Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, knows the answer for this CNN article from years of extensive research on the method.
The firing squad is among the country’s oldest execution methods, according to Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the death penalty and execution methods. But it’s been used rarely, with just over 140 inmates put to death using that method since 1608, per her research.
Read “Why the firing squad may be making a comeback” on CNN.