article_snippet: The prisoner is strapped into a chair at the ankles and by the arms and chest in front of a wood panel with sandbags piled high on either side to prevent non-lethal wax bullets ricocheting.
article_snippet: A target is pinned to The prisoner's heart with the intention that shots be fired into the heart rather than the head and the individual will bleed out quickly.
article_snippet: The inmate has two minutes to say any final words before five shooters line up behind a slot in the wall, 25 feet from a chair.
article_snippet: The shots are fired from .30 caliber Winchester rifles until The prisoner is declared dead.