State Parliament Idahoin the United States, approved this Monday a law that allows fire sentenced to death when information is not available lethal injection.
The text, approved by a vote of 24 to 11 in the Senate of this conservative western state, now has to be ratified by the governor.
Idaho would be the fifth state USA in approving this method of execution, after Utah, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and South Carolina, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Two men and one woman were executed this method since 1976, most recently in 2010.
About lethal injection
States USA who use the death penalty have serious difficulties in obtaining the substances needed for lethal injectiondue to the opposition of pharmaceutical companies who do not want to be associated with the death penalty.
One execution shooting will only be possible in Idaho if it is not possible to apply lethal injection.
People executed by firing squad “are likely to experience extreme pain and torture,” civil rights organization ACLU warned in a statement, calling the law “appalling” and “archaic.” (AFP)
Source: RPP
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