Firing Squads and Botched Executions - The Coming End of America’s Death Penalty Sarat, Austin Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-10-07 eng
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 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 Sarat, Austin USA USA death penalty firing squad USA 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/firing-squads-and-botched-executions/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/5270fc57c1e20729 261007 10.59704/5270fc57c1e20729 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)