article_snippet: Pictured is the Utah firing squad execution chamber, where death row inmates are strapped into the seat in front of a wooden board to stop bullets, and beside sandbags that absorb blood splatters .
article_snippet: Attached to the state prison at Draper, the small execution room — built in an old canning factory — is flooded with fluorescent light from the ceiling and has no decorations on the small execution room — built in an old canning factory — white cinderblock walls.
article_snippet: The inmate is bound to a chair with leather straps around the wrists, ankles, shoulders, waist and forehead
article_snippet: The inmate immobility is crucial if the shooters' are to hit The inmate heart.
article_snippet: Locating his heart with a stethoscope, a doctor fastens a piece of white cloth two inches square, with a circle in the middle, over the left breast of the prisoner's jumpsuit.
article_snippet: The target over the prisoner chest had three, possibly four, holes.
article_snippet: Instead, a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves stepped into the chamber, lifting a black hood over the inmate's head just enough to check the pulse on a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves neck.
article_snippet: a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves then raised a black hood over the inmate's head further, shining a torch into a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves eyes to confirm a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves was dead.
article_snippet: The prisoner is meant to lose consciousness when shock causes a fall in the supply of blood to the brain.
article_snippet: If the shots are accurate, a prison official wearing blue plastic gloves is dead in seconds.
article_snippet: the inmate will bleed to death slowly.
article_snippet: Pictured is the gurney at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary where death row inmates are injected .
highlights_snippet: Prisoners are tied to a chair, with a target marking where Prisoners heart lies .
  