Yes, it's still on the books in Utah. In practical terms though, they won't use the firing squad unless the condemned person specifically requests it, because of the negative, sensationalist way the MSM presents the story.
The last man executed by firing squad was strapped to a chair and shot through the heart by four men with .30-30 rifles.
Was that Gary Gilmore?
Thank you! That's what I thought. I don't particularly see it as inhumane honestly. If the women in the photographs *did* in fact commit a premeditated murder . . . I mean jeez. . .there are people here on FR all the time who talk about drowning/suffocating/etc etc the perpetrators of murders as retaliation.
I would think a bullet. . . or more to the head would be pretty quick.