I kind of suspect that this is a legal tactic, but honestly...if I were going to be executed and had the opportunity to be the last person executed by firing squad in the US, which I guess she'd have pretty decent odds of being, I think I might take it. Firing squad is probably marginally less-pleasant than lethal injection, but it's also pretty fast, and that's probably a record that'd last.
That being said, my understanding is that women generally don't go in for death by firearm, so it's kind of an unexpected request from her. One of the major reasons that women in the US have a much higher survival rate when it comes to suicide than men is that women are much more likely to use poison than firearms to kill themselves. A hospital can do a lot more about poison if they catch it in time than someone having just blown their brains out.
IIRC from past reading, that stems from the fact that guys tend to think less about how they're gonna look afterwards, whereas women think about how they're gonna look, say, lying in state at a funeral as a corpse.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/09/26/firearms-suicide-deaths-women-cdc/75353527007/
Studies have shown that women and girls tend to have more suicidal ideation, attempts and self-injury. Men and boys are more likely to use lethal means such as firearms and, therefore, have much higher rates of suicide. Researchers have called this the “gender paradox.”
Yeah.
Oh, but...hmm. Apparently, according to the article, I am out of date on poison being the favorite route for women to do themselves in; things have shifted in the last few years.
The CDC report published Thursday, however, found firearms were the leading means of suicide for women since 2020, and suicide deaths overall among women also increased.
EDIT: Oh, wait, no, the CDC thing is on the means of successful suicide, not just all attempts. So while "firearms are now the leading method for successful suicide for women" is still a change, that's not the same thing as being the preferred method to attempt suicide.