The Missouri inmate Johnson was denied a hearing by the six conservatives on the Supreme Court, triggering protests from the court's sitting liberal justices. The last convict killed by firing squad was in Utah in 2010 when convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed.
There have been only three convicted death row inmates killed by firing squads in the U.S. South Carolina just passed a law for inmates to choose between death by firing squad or the electric chair if the drugs used for lethal injection are unavailable. However, other states, including Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah allow death by firing squad. The lower court ruled Johnson may not amend his lawsuit to request a firing squad in Missouri. The conservative majority justices did not explain the court's decision.īefore the Supreme Court denied Johnston's request for a hearing, a lower court had upheld Missouri's refusal to execute him via nitrogen gas, another state-approved method for execution authorized by state law. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against hearing the appeal of death row inmate Ernest Johnson, who is seeking death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. Photo Source: The firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, in 2010.
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