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Bill to allow firing-squad executions is being drafted in state with just one death-row inmate
By abajournal.com- Debra Cassens Weiss
Published: 05/22/2014

A legislative committee in Wyoming is drafting a bill to allow firing-squad executions, though the state has only one death-row inmate.

Committee staffers are beginning work on the bill after the director of the state’s Department of Corrections suggested the state needs an alternative to execution drugs, which are increasingly difficult to obtain, the Associated Press reports.

Currently the state has no execution drugs, corrections director Bob Lampert said.

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