A reader writes:
Regarding the quote from Balko, the state of Utah executed a man in 2010 using a firing squad. He was the third person killed in this manner by state employees since 1976. Sooner or later, all of Utah's condemned will be killed by lethal injection. But for now, some of the men on state's death row have the option of choosing death by firing squad. Who knew Utah was pro-choice?
Another writes:
Yes, let's bring back the firing squad. But have it made up of members randomly chosen from a group of the condemned's peers in a process exactly like that used to impanel a jury. Execution duty. What better way to drive home the point that a state execution is an execution by We the People and that we as individuals are responsible for this brutality? Would our appetite for the death penalty begin to erode when individual citizens had to face this dreadful duty?
The Dish 