The Utah State Senate voted to bring back firing squads if lethal injection drugs become unavailable, which would make it the only state in the union to allow the method. The method is considered cruel by many Americans; only 12% said they would be open to it in a 2014 NBC News poll. But experts, including Deborah Denno, say it may actually be the most effective way for states to execute inmates, according to Time magazine.
“Firing squad is the only execution method for which people are trained,” says Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno, who studies lethal injection and other execution methods. “It’s the most certain, the most expert way of executing and from all we know it would be the quickest.”
Read the full Time magazine article here.