Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming proposed adding firing squad as an executionmethod earlier this year.
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Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming proposed adding firing squads as an executionmethod earlier this year.
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The inmates argued that the three-drug executionmethod violates their Eighth Amendment constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
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Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. has issued an advisory opinion that electrocution is constitutionally defensible as an executionmethod.
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Thirty-eight men and one woman were put to death there before the state changed its executionmethod in 1989 to lethal injection.