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Overall, the government received a record 789,000 requests last fiscal year but processed only about 760,000, according to the Department of Justice. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this June 18, 2010, file photo, the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, is shown. Used mostly in the 19th and 20th centuries, it was also used in 1977 in Utah to execute Gary Gilmore, the first inmate put to death after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume, and two other Utah inmates. Some experts consider it the quickest and least painful method. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)
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FILE - A microphone hangs over the gurney in the Texas death house in this May 27, 2008 file photo taken in Huntsville, Texas. First proposed by the Oklahoma state medical examiner, it was quickly adopted by states as a painless way to put inmates to death, first with a three-drug mixture, then often with a single dose of a powerful barbiturate. It was used first on a Texas inmate in 1982. Since 1976, 1,203 executions have been performed by injection. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
