USA - Idaho. A firing squad would no longer be an option after a bill approved today by the House Judiciary and Rules Committee

A firing squad would no longer be an option for Idaho executions under a bill approved today by the House Judiciary and Rules Committee. Idaho still allows firing squads, but only as a backup in case a Department of Correction director should deem lethal injection impractical in a specific case. Idaho hasn't seen an execution since 1994. According to the state Department of Correction, there are 16 men and 1 woman currently on death row. The state has never executed someone by firing squad or even trained people as firing squad executioners. A specialist at the Historical Society museum at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, said the 10 executions that took place at the prison were by hanging. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, two people in the United States have died by firing squad, both in Utah: Gary Gilmore, made famous in a book by Norman Mailer, in 1977 and John Albert Taylor in 1996. The bill now moves to the House floor.