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Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US

A chair sits in the execution chamber at the Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Draper, Utah. [AP]

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison at a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era.

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