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‘Unique request’: Death row inmate asks to be killed by firing squad

By Zach Halaschak
Published January 13, 2020 4:57pm ET
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‘Unique request’: Death row inmate asks to be killed by firing squad
This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. The Oklahoma House has approved legislation Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, to eliminate the electric chair as a method of execution, although it's been more than 50 years since the state's last electrocution. The bill lists which execution methods are allowed, including lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia, which causes death by depleting oxygen in the blood, firing squad and any other form not prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. | (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

A Georgia death row inmate is suing the state’s prison system to allow him to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection.

Michael Nance argued that his veins are “severely compromised” and would be difficult to locate during the execution, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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