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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/5270fc57c1e20729 https://verfassungsblog.de/firing-squads-and-botched-executions/ Firing Squads and Botched Executions - The Coming End of America’s Death Penalty Sarat, Austin eng 2026-10-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 USA USA death penalty firing squad USA Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.