article_snippet: Some states have started considering other options.
article_snippet: Utah's Legislature gave final approval Tuesday night to a proposal to allow executions by firing squad if there is a drug shortage.
article_snippet: Legislation to allow firing squads also has been introduced in Arkansas, while a Wyoming firing-squad measure failed.
article_snippet: In Oklahoma, lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the nation's most active death penalty state to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates. '