Nevada Execution is the legal process of imposing a sentence of death as punishment for a crime in the U.S. state of Nevada. A court of law must first sentence an individual to death before an execution can be carried out. The three types of execution in Nevada are lethal injection, gas chamber, and firing squad. Lethal injection is the most commonly used method of execution in Nevada. The inmate is given a single large dose of an anesthetic, followed by a lethal dose of a barbiturate. The gas chamber is a method of execution in which the condemned person is put into a sealed chamber filled with an inhalant such as cyanide gas. The firing squad is used when a person is sentenced to death by firing squad, as they are brought before a wall and a team of five or more executioners armed with rifles take aim and fire at the condemned person.