Firing Squad

The prosecutor still has not said whether he will seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted

State joins Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable

Judge had previously ruled that two of the state’s three methods for electrocution — the firing squad and the electric chair — are unconstitutional

Under the state's revised capital punishment law, inmates must have the choice between the electric chair and a firing squad

Anthony Boyd cannot be put to death by alternative methods since lethal injection and electrocution are Alabama's only approved execution methods

Judge Alex Kozinski called the death penalty "barbaric" and "vicious"

Tourism is big business in Utah, home to world-class ski resorts and spectacular national parks

The Republican governor has said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execution method in case a shortage of the drugs persists

Randy Gardner still struggles four years later to talk about seeing his brother's bullet-ridden body at the mortuary after he was executed