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I think the tradition is to have one blank bullet in one of the rifles so people can kid themselves into believing they didn’t kill someone.
In my experience, firing a blank doesn’t feel like firing a live bullet.
I imagine there’s no kickback? Maybe it’s an urban legend, or it helps at least pull the trigger, hoping you’ve got the blank.
Edit: Looks legit. https://www.standard.net/police-fire/courts/2017/apr/10/how-utahs-execution-by-firing-squad-works/
When you fire a weapon with a blank there’s less kickback (to the point where you’d notice the difference in recoil based on what you braced for vs what you got). At least, on all the weapons I trained on. Could depend on the weapon I guess though.
I didn’t mean to say it wasn’t a thing, just that given what I have experienced I feel like you’d know if you’d shot a blank or not. It might psychologically make pulling the trigger easier but I don’t think it changes the end result.
Also depends on the load in the blank; they can vary the amount of powder. But yes, an experienced rifleman can probably tell.