nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5270fc57c1e20729 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 261007s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5270fc57c1e20729 doi eng 342 23 Sarat, Austin Author aut Firing Squads and Botched Executions - The Coming End of America’s Death Penalty Sarat, Austin Verfassungsblog 2026-10-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On Monday, October 5, President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan. If Hasan is put to death by that method, it would be the first use by the military since 1945. That announcement came on the heels of a deeply embarrassing moment for death penalty supporters when Christa Pike survived an execution attempt in Tennessee on September 30. Beyond those two shocking developments, we will see that the death penalty is dying in the United States. CC BY-SA 4.0 USA USA death penalty firing squad (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd USA Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/firing-squads-and-botched-executions/ raw object