"execution method" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a specific way or procedure used to do or accomplish something. For example, "The team developed a unique execution method to speed up the process."
Missouri executes prisoners by lethal injection, the most common execution method in the U.S.
Mr. Holton chose the electric chair over the state's usual execution method of lethal injection.
The upright jerker was an interesting twist on a classic execution method.
Soon after, he began his own review of the execution method.
Question 776, known as the Allow Any Execution Method, protects the death penalty in the constitution, blocking it from being declared cruel or unusual punishment.
No information was released about the execution method used, but the country's normal policy is to behead condemned prisoners with a sword.
Governor Gary Herbert, a Republican, said on Thursday that he is leaning towards signing the proposal because the state needs a fallback execution method.
Such states are also shrouding details of suppliers and procedures in secrecy, in response to mounting concerns about the suitability of lethal injection as an execution method.
Utah law allowed Mr. Gardner to choose a firing squad because he was sentenced before 2004, when lethal injection became the state's default execution method.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that another death row inmate had not presented evidence that a new backup execution method could cause severe pain in violation of the Constitution.
A man on death row for committing three murders was put to death by injection after a week of appeals in which his lawyers claimed the execution method was potentially painful and therefore unconstitutionally cruel.
