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Floyd s lawyers moves come as the Nevada Legislature considers banning the death penalty, reports CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS-TV. A bill doing that passed the Assembly last week and was sent to the state Senate.
Undated file photo from the Nevada Department of Corrections shows Zane Michael Floyd, a death row inmate convicted of killing four people and wounding a fifth in a shotgun attack at a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999. Nevada Department of Corrections via AP, File
Three states - Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah - and the U.S. military allow capital punishment by gunfire. The last time that method was used in the United States was in Utah in 2010.
Jess Hardiman
8:45 PM, April 20 2021 GMT+1
A convicted killer in Nevada has requested to be killed by firing squad rather than by lethal injection as he fights his possible execution.
Zane Michael Floyd is facing execution in June, which - if it goes ahead - would make him the first person put to death in Nevada for 15 years.
Floyd, 45, has requested death by firing squad, which is not commonly used for executions in the United States.
However, his attorneys have said it would be more humane than a fatal injection, as the method is faster and less painful.
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Brad Levenson, a federal public defender representing Floyd, said on Monday 19 April: This is not a delaying tactic.