#firing squad

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Republican lawmakers on a Senate committee advanced a pair of bills that would give inmates a new option to choose for their method of execution, death by firing squad.

Rep. Kevin Payne (R-Peoria) wants to give inmates the option to choose: death by firing squad, or the current two alternatives in the state constitution: lethal gas or lethal injection.

The default method would remain lethal injection for inmates who don’t choose.

But Payne’s proposal would eliminate that choice for those sentenced to death for murdering a law enforcement officer. They’d be required to face a firing squad.

Since the proposal would amend the constitution, Arizona voters would have to approve the change at the ballot.

The state has a checkered history of executions in the past decade, from struggling to insert IV lines for lethal drugs and issues obtaining the required drugs in the first place.

Firing squads. In America.