SALT LAKE CITY — Nine men are on Utah’s death row awaiting execution.
There is no timetable for when each one will be put to death, because each has a series of appeals in the works. Three of them have elected to die by firing squad, grandfathered in before it was done away with as a primary method of execution.
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Last year, the Utah State Legislature passed by a bill by Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton, that brought back the firing squad as a method of execution should lethal injection not be available.
Right now, the Utah Department of Corrections has said, it does not have the drugs to carry out a lethal injection execution.
Corrections officials provided to FOX 13 this list of the death row inmates and how they have elected to die:
Michael Anthony Archuleta, 52
Sentenced to death: 12/21/1989
Method: Lethal injection (assigned after he did not select a method)
Douglas Stewart Carter, 59
Sentenced to death: 12/27/1985 (overturned in 1989)
Resentenced to death: 01/27/1992
Method: Lethal injection (assigned after he did not select a method)
Sentenced to death: 05/20/1999
Method: Not specified (previously has stated firing squad)
Troy Michael Kell, 46
Sentenced to death: 08/08/1996
Method: Firing squad
Ronald Watson Lafferty, 73
Sentenced to death: 05/07/1985 (subsequently granted new trial)
Resentenced to death: 04/23/1996
Method: Firing squad
Floyd Eugene Maestas, 58
Sentence to death: 02/01/2008
Method: Lethal injection
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 56
Sentenced to death: 03/23/1988
Method: Firing squad
Von Lester Taylor, 49
Sentenced to death: 05/24/1991
Method: Lethal injection
Douglas Lovell, 57
Sentenced to death: 08/05/1993 (subsequently granted new trial)
Resentenced to death: 04/01/2015
Method: Lethal injection
