LOS ANGELES: Utah could become the only US state to restore the firing squad as a method of execution after lawmakers approved a bill on the emotive issue.

The draft legislation, approved by the western US state's senate, would allow for a firing squad if drugs used for executions were unavailable, as has recently been the case in a number of US states.

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