article_snippet: Five-man firing squads are to be formed and trained in preparation for a move that critics say risks dragging The U.S. back to a 'more barbaric past'.
article_snippet: Facing a crisis in the lethal injection system by which most Death Row inmates are normally executed, Utah's leaders have just approved a solution that harks back to the violent spirit of Utah Wild West past.
article_snippet: the desert state of Utah has become the first to bring back the firing squad.
article_snippet: Although a firing squad may sound like a long-gone relic of frontier justice, the largely Mormon state of Utah did use one five years ago.
article_snippet: Utah had stopped offering Death Row inmates the option of a firing squad in 2004
article_snippet: Utah's death penalty supporters insist that a well-trained firing squad would be faster and more humane than the protracted deaths caused by botched lethal injections.
article_snippet: In Utah, condemned men have opted for it over lethal injection because it seems more manly.
article_snippet: Utah, in fact, has dispatched all three of the prisoners killed by firing squad in U.S. U.S. since the death penalty was restored in 1976.
article_snippet: a state founded in bloodshed between Mormon settlers, native tribes and federal troops — may have a sentimental attachment to the law of the gun.
article_snippet: Politicians in Alabama and Tennessee have voted to bring back a chair, while Wyoming's state assembly passed a Bill to reintroduce firing squads.
article_snippet: But only in Tennessee and Utah have these macabre initiatives made these macabre initiatives onto the law books.
highlights_snippet: Utah is forming five-man firing squads for a return to execution by bullet .
  
highlights_snippet: State leaders have approved a solution harking back to Utah Wild West past .
  
highlights_snippet: It is the first state to re-sanction firing squads if drugs are not available .
  