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	iCorrection.com -- Firing squad
		Execution by firing squad is distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as a single shot from a handgun to the back of the neck.
		It was relaunched by the execution of Gary Gilmore on January 24, 1977 at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah by a five-man firing squad.
		The firing squad was banned in Utah by a law passed on March 15, 2004, leaving Idaho and Oklahoma as the only states where it is still legal, although four Utah convicts that previously chose to die by firing squad will have their requests honored should they ultimately be executed.
	www.icorrection.com /firing.html (802 words)

	Execution by firing squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The firing squad is generally composed of several soldiers or peace officers.
		Execution by firing squad should be considered distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as a single shot from a handgun to the back of the neck.
		In Utah, the firing squad (a 5 man team) consisted of volunteer peace officers from the county in which the conviction of the offender took place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad (1487 words)

	Execution by firing squad (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Use of firing squads in the US According to Executions in the U.S. by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, it is estimated that 142 men have been judicially shot in the United States and English-speaking predecessor territories since 1608, excluding executions related to the American Civil War.
		It was "re-launched" by the execution of Gary Gilmore on January 17, 1977 at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah by a five-man firing squad.
		The firing squad was banned in Utah by a law passed on March 15, 2004 http://www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888/2004/LAW/03/17/firing.squads.ap/index.html, leaving Idaho and Oklahoma as the only states where it is still legal, although four Utah convicts that previously chose to die by firing squad will have their requests honored should they ultimately be executed.
	execution-by-firing-squad.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (871 words)

	deseretnews.com \| House OKs putting end to firing-squad option
		Execution by firing squad was shot down by the House of Representatives Monday, passing a bill to make lethal injection the sole means of carrying out Utah's death penalty.
		Idaho retains the firing squad as an alternative, but has not used it, nor has Oklahoma, which can empanel a firing squad, but only after both lethal injection and electrocution are deemed inviable.
		The firing squad is a relic of Utah's pre-statehood days and reportedly draws on an early Mormon belief that justice was only done if a murderer's blood was also shed.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590038859,00.html (760 words)

	Methods of Execution: Firing Squad
		By his own choosing, Taylor was executed by firing squad in Utah on January 26, 1996.
		For execution by this method, the inmate is typically bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist and head, in front of an oval-shaped canvas wall.
		The prisoner dies as a result of blood loss caused by rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, or tearing of the lungs.
	teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu /c/about/methods/firingsquad.htm (217 words)

	Methods of Execution - Monitor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As soon as possible after the execution proceeding, the superintendent forwards the death warrant to the Governor, indicating that the execution has been carried out and files a copy of the death warrant with the circuit court in which the condemned offender was convicted and sentenced to death.
		However, the members of the firing squad are certified police officers selected from a list supplied by a law enforcement agency and are selected by the executive director of the department or his designee.
		The firing squad is compensated at the discretion of the executive director, though Criminal Justice Committee staff has been informed that the firing squad involved in the Taylor execution received compensation.
	www.fcc.state.fl.us.cob-web.org:8888 /fcc/reports/monitor/methmon.html (8660 words)

	Utah and the Use of Firing Squads - the International Justice Project
		Only two inmates have chosen the firing squad as their method of execution, the only two inmates in America to be executed by firing squad since reinstatement.
		(1) The executive director of the Department of Corrections or his designee shall ensure that the method of judgment of death specified in the warrant is carried out at a secure correctional facility operated by the department at an hour determined by the department on the date specified in the warrant.
		Of Utah's 50 executions, 40 have been carried out by firing squad, 6 by hanging (which was outlawed in 1983) and 3 by lethal injection, according to Weber State University criminologist L. Kay Gillespie, author of The Unforgiven: Utah's Executed Men.
	www.internationaljusticeproject.org /utah.cfm?print=yes (2498 words)

	Chinese use mobile death vans to execute prisoners - The Wire - May2003 - Amnesty International
		Execution by lethal injection as an alternative to the firing squad was introduced in China in the revised Criminal Procedure Law in 1997 and was first used on an experimental basis in Yunnan province.
		These are intended to replace the traditional method of execution by firing squad in which prisoners are taken to an execution ground and made to kneel with hands cuffed before being shot in the head.
		Eighteen mobile executions vans, converted 24-seater buses, are being distributed to all intermediate courts and one high court in Yunnan province.
	web.amnesty.org /wire/May2003/China (524 words)

	The World Today - Execution by firing squad still used in Utah
		A legacy of the Atate's Mormon founders, the firing squad remains one of Utah's methods of execution, and as our North America Correspondent John Shovelan reports, there's a movement in the United States determined to ensure that some of the more brutal means of execution remain part of US law and order.
		SCOTT DANIELS: Someone who is going to be executed has the choice, not a very pleasant choice, but they can be executed by firing squad or they can be executed by lethal injection.
		Other methods of execution while people absolutely do not, may not support capital punishment, they don't seem to attract the attention like a firing squad.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2003/s879371.htm (635 words)

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		The nation's last execution by firing squad was in 1996.
		Anti-death penalty forces are protesting, arguing that the firing squad amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
		The Utah Corrections Department is recruiting law enforcement officers for two five-person firing squads, asking the police departments in the communities where the crimes were committed to nominate volunteers.
	www.deathrowspeaks.info /news/firing-squad.html (502 words)

	Methods of Execution
		Current execution procedure is found at Indiana Code 35-38-6 and requires that the execution take place inside the walls of the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City before sunrise.
		The execution protocol for most jurisdictions authorizes the use of a steel airtight execution chamber, equipped with a chair and attached restraints.
		The traditional firing squad is made up of three to six shooters per prisoner who stand or kneel opposite the condemned who is usually tied to a chair or to a stake.
	www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/methods.htm (2704 words)

	Anecdotage.com - Executions anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shortly before his execution by firing squad, the notorious murderer James Rodge...
		In March 1995 Thomas J. Grasso was executed by lethal injection for his role in...
		In 1772, Johann Friedriche von Struensee was executed in Denmark for crimes agai...
	anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Executions (986 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Firing squad days numbered?
		A repeal of Utah's firing squad for executing death row inmates should be retroactive —; even if that means opening a new avenue for appeals Utah's Sentencing Commission decided Wednesday.
		Lethal injection is the most common form of execution used in the United States, where capital punishment is law in 37 states and in federal statues.
		A retroactive repeal would effectively block the firing squad executions of four of the 11 men on Utah's death row.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,515035830,00.html (505 words)

	USATODAY.com - USA likely will execute 1,000th inmate since '77 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahead of Lovitt on death row are Eric Nance, scheduled to be executed Monday in Arkansas, and John Hicks, scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Ohio.
		Gilmore was executed before a Utah firing squad, after a record of petty crime, killing of a motel manager and suicide attempts in prison.
		A decade after his execution, however, the only witness in the case and Cantu's co-defendant have both come forward to say he was innocent.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-11-24-executions_x.htm (1402 words)

	History of the Civil War
		He witnessed an execution by firing squad of a soldier who had deserted several times and additionally was suspected of giving information to the Confederates.
		Death by the firing squad was considered too honorable a death for a traitor.
		Other than death by a firing squad, dishonorable discharge was perhaps the least desirable way to leave the service.
	www.floridareenactorsonline.com /crimespunishments2.htm (1946 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Utah may drop execution by firing squad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, two people in the United States have died by firing squad, both in Utah: Gary Gilmore in 1977 and John Albert Taylor in 1996.
		A relic of its territorial days, Utah's firing squads employ five riflemen, one of whom shoots a blank so none will know who fired the fatal shot.
		Idaho and Oklahoma retain the firing squad on their books as an option but have not used it in modern times.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/20/utah_may_drop_execution_by_firing_squad (305 words)

	BYU NewsNet - Execution by firing squad revoked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He said executions by firing squad create a distracting "media circus" and cause victims' families more pain because they allow the murderers to go out in a "blaze of glory" and can perversely make heroes out of criminals.
		Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.
		Utah has since executed five death row inmates, four of whom were executed by lethal injection.
	newsnet.byu.edu /story.cfm/48564 (462 words)

	Death/firing squad protocol
		The battalion was paraded; the accused man brought forward and the sentence announced: execution by firing squad.
		I agree with Bill Nelson's appraisal that anyone firing a rifle (let alone an experienced soldier) would at once be able to distinguish between a blank round and a live one.
		I surmise that it is to allow the firing party some peace of mind after they have been ordered to murder a comrade: any one of them can persuade himself retrospectively that he drew the blank round.
	tafkac.org /death/firing_squad_protocol.html (412 words)

	12 January 1959 A MASS EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD, Cuba
		The shooting squad, the new patriots that were supposed to hold the justice and peace, lined up in front of the prisoners.
		A cloud of smoke emanated from the firing squad marking the barbaric crime committed in that place.
		Condemning and executing innocent people without proper judicial procedures would be the pattern of this sinister Communist age Cubans had to go through.
	www.aguadadepasajeros.bravepages.com /english/january59.htm (613 words)

	The Firing Squad : A Funny Clean Joke from Basic Jokes
		The firing squad looked around anxiously and while they were trying to figure out whether there was an earthquake or not, the brunette guys all took off and escaped.
		The firing squad looked around anxiously and while they were trying to figure out which direction the tornado was coming from, the redheaded guys all took off and escaped.
		The firing squad took the blonde guys last, and by now the blondes had it all figured out; when the right time came just yell out the name of some natural disaster.
	www.basicjokes.com /djoke.php?id=709 (271 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Utah bans firing-squad executions
		Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977
		Idaho and Oklahoma retain the firing squad on their books but have not used it in modern times.
		The last person to die by firing squad in the US was John Albert Taylor, executed in Utah in 1996.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3519310.stm (263 words)

	USATODAY.com - Utah prepares for firing-squad executions in June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Exercising their right under Utah law, serial killer Roberto Arguelles and Troy Michael Kell, a white supremacist who stabbed a fellow inmate to death, have chosen the firing squad over lethal injection and are set to die at 12:01 a.m.
		Utah's use of firing squads predates statehood in 1896 and is a remnant of the early Mormon belief that bloodshed is a required punishment for taking a life, said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which says it is neutral about the death penalty but critical of its application.
		The executioners will fire simultaneously from gun portals in a separate room at the inmate, seated in a chair about 30 feet away.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-05-23-firing-squad_x.htm (597 words)

	utah to use firing squad for execution - TheCatSite.com Forums
		I don't know if they still do this, but when the firing squad was regularly used, the men on the squad would draw from a pool of bullets, some of which were blanks, so they didn't know which one actually killed the person.
		For the record - we just went over this in the academy: when using a firing squad for capital punishment, ONE of the bullets is a blank, and not one of the officers knows which one has it.
		The Utah firing squad was last used in 1972, for murderer Gary Gilmore.
	www.thecatsite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19112 (1224 words)

	Firing squad in Utah may finally die - Utah studying changes in execution methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gordon has conducted a study that examines different methods of execution and the question of who decides on which method to employ — the Legislature or the condemned person.Lt. Jeff Meyers points to restraints used on prisoners in the firing-squad chair at the Utah State Prison.
		Department of Corrections spokesman Jack Ford said that of the 50 official executions carried out in Utah's history, 40 were by firing squad, six were by hanging and four by lethal injection.
		Lethal injection is the most commonly used method of execution, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. Each time the firing squad has been used, Utah has drawn global attention, Ford said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/959175/posts (1773 words)

	CNN.com - Court clears way for firing squad - Oct. 25, 2002
		A serial killer who asked to be executed by firing squad without the traditional hood over his head will be granted his wish, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
		As required by state law, his case was appealed to the state Supreme Court, which ruled Friday that the firing squad execution could go forward.
		The execution date was expected to be set soon by a lower court.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/West/10/25/firing.squad.utah.ap (338 words)

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