All the ways it's actually still legal to execute people in the U.S.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert approved a bill on Monday that will allow the state to execute death row inmates by firing squad, bringing back an execution method previously on the brink of extinction in the United States

The bill only allows Utah to use a firing squad if the chemicals required for lethal injection are unavailable, which is not far-fetched, given that many companies that manufacture such chemicals are refusing to sell them to prisons because they don't want to be associated with executions.

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Utah is now the only state legally allowed to execute prisoners via firing squad, though Oklahoma has kept the option on the table if lethal injections and electrocutions are both outlawed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Read more...

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