I encourage states to at a minimum have the firing squad as an alternative on their books.
Firing squad members are LEO who are chosen from list of those indicating want to participate
Its said for some particularly notorious prisoner some
of the members will “aim off” - aim to side of target pinned on prisoner so gets to suffer ......
Having watched film clips at different times of shooting executions taking place in WWII, I think firing squad would be my preferred choice for execution.
There used to be a guy on the radio here in Phoenix (I can’t think of his name right now), and before Arizona executed someone, he would read official court documents detailing the crime. Many of them were quite brutal, and you came away from thinking: Yeah, kill ‘em.
Got a friend in UT corrections who was an insider on the firing squad op.
From bang to haul-off in a van is done fast. A couple of minutes later the press is allowed in, and all there is is a chair with a ragged hole in the back. Slick as a snail’s tail.