I heard they do this on purpose to get back to firing squads because a bullet is cheaper than a lethal injection.
Why don't they use nitrogen gas? Because they want executions to be painful?
There's lots of guns in America. I don't support the death penalty, but not using the simplest method really seems like they are going out of their way to make it cruel.
I think the last execution by firing squad in Utah had the Janitors and guards flat refusing to clean up the mess.
All I got to say is if you sentence a man to life in prison it's done then and there.
Dig a deep enough hole and you don't have anything to clean up except with a backhoe.
With pure nitrogen, you become unconscious in about 15 seconds ... without any pains
Not endorsing the death penalty, but same question. NPR just had a report on PTSD in prison employees and witnesses participating in executions.