Arizona used hanging, the gas chamber and today, lethal injections as a means to execute prisoners on death row.
What about a firing squad?
The governor of Utah is poised to make a decision on whether to support a firing squad as a back-up plan if the state can't get a hold of lethal drugs.
Arizona senator Ed Ableser said he doesn't think a firing squad would ever make it's way to Arizona.
"I'm sure there's people that would like to bring up the firing squad ... I can't see them doing that," he said. "It is completely barbaric."
The senator has been trying for almost a decade to get rid of the death penalty in Arizona, but to no avail.
"I would hope that Arizona along with the many other states follow suit and outlaw the death penalty," he said.
Tim LaSota, a former Maricopa County Attorney's Office prosecutor, is in support of the death penalty. But he too, agrees with Ableser.
"It'll never happen here," he said. "Really before we get too far, we need to talk about the type of monsters were talking about."
For example, LaSota said there is a man who murdered a 15-month-old baby in her crib by slitting her throat.
He also said Utah has used the firing squad before and Arizona needs to continue what it's been doing.
"We obviously have a number of very bad people on death row, but I think the Department of Corrections has worked through some of the issues," LaSota said.
According to assistant federal public defender Dale Baich, Arizona essentially doesn't have a plan B if there aren't enough drugs.
"Right now, the statutes say that executions should be carried out by lethal injection," Baich said.
He said Arizona's Department of Corrections has agreed to halt any warrants for executions until a federal lawsuit is settled because of Joseph Wood's drug cocktail execution last year that took two hours for him to die.
Baich said Arizona has never carried out executions through firing squad.
He said the state began with hanging then switched to gas chambers in the 1930's and then in 1992, voters changed the constitution to allow execution by lethal injection.
