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Is death by firing squad really instantaneous?

In Utah, the death penalty can now be carried out by firing squadd.

03/24/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Is death by firing squad really instantaneous?

Clip: 3/24/2015 | 6m 24s

In Utah, the death penalty can now be carried out by firing squadd.

In Utah, the death penalty can now be carried out by firing squad, but only as a backup method if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. The state’s governor signed in the new law amidst a nation-wide shortage of these drugs, and other states are eyeing similar execution methods. Judy Woodruff talks to Andrew Novak of George Mason University and Jennifer Dobner of The Salt Lake Tribune.

03/24/2015 | Rating NR

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