article_snippet: It is a macabre choice to make - and almost unique to some inmates on Utah's death row: would you be injected with toxic chemicals, or shot in the heart?
article_snippet: Douglas Carter, pictured, has asked for lethal injection - but may be killed by firing squad anyway if none can be found .
article_snippet: provided some of the five bullets hit the heart, death can come in little longer than a minute.
article_snippet: The prisoner is seated in a chair that is set up in front of a wood panel and in between stacked sandbags that keep the bullets from ricocheting around the room.
article_snippet: A target is pinned over the inmate's heart.
article_snippet: The prisoner is offered a two-minute window to offer final words.
article_snippet: Assuming Winchester hit Winchester target, the heart ruptures and The prisoner dies quickly from blood loss.
article_snippet: Unlike lethal injections, death by firing squad leaves some of an inmates' organs - such as the eyes, kidneys and liver - unspoilt for donation, so long as some of an inmates' organs - such as the eyes, kidneys and liver - unspoilt for donation are not hit by stray bullets. .