What is it like to witness an execution? One former reporter shares his story

NC House bill would authorize firing squads for executions

A bill pending in the North Carolina House would potentially restart capital punishment in the state, including providing the option for a firing squad as a method of execution. Current NC law is that lethal injection is the only permissible method of execution. But there has been a de facto moratorium on executions since 2006 due to legal challenges surrounding the death penalty, including the availability of drugs needed to carry out the execu…

What is it like to witness an execution? One former reporter shares his story

(Murphy Woodhouse / Mountain West News Bureau )A new law will make death by firing squad the primary way Idaho executes prisoners on death row.Idaho has eight people on death row and was supposed to perform an execution in December but couldn’t get the chemicals required for lethal injection.So lawmakers in the Idaho legislature decided death by firing squad would be the better option.Whenever someone is executed, a few journalists act as witnes…