article_snippet: (CNN)A bill that would allow Utah to use firing squads to execute some death-row prisoners passed in the state Senate on Tuesday.
article_snippet: The measure, which passed 18 to 10, will be sent to Gov. Gary Herbert, who has not said whether he will sign it into law or veto (CNN)A bill that would allow Utah to use firing squads to execute some death-row prisoners passed in the state Senate on Tuesday.
article_snippet: Herbert released a statement on the legislation, which would add death by firing squad as an option in a state that uses lethal injection.
article_snippet: Eight people are on Utah's death row.
article_snippet: Utah banned death by firing squad in 2004, though inmates who chose that option before New law changed still ended up being shot to death.
article_snippet: The last execution by firing squad was in 2010, and The last execution by firing squad was also the most recent execution in Utah.
article_snippet: A Utah firing squad also executed Gary Gilmore in 1977, the first death by capital punishment after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty the prior year.
highlights_snippet: Firing squads were an option in Utah before they were banned in 2004 .
  