Mississippi considers firing squad as method of execution

[mfcorey1]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.

House Bill 638 is a response to lawsuits filed by "liberal, left-wing radicals," said House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, a Republican.

The bill passed the House amid opposition Wednesday, and it moves to the Senate for more debate.

Lethal injection is Mississippi's only execution method. The state faces lawsuits claiming the drugs it plans to use would violate constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

Mississippi hasn't been able to acquire the execution drugs it once used, and it last carried out an execution in 2012. The state has 47 people on death row , and some have been there for decades.

The 33 states with the death penalty all have lethal injection as the primary method of execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center . The center says only Oklahoma and Utah have firing squad as an option; eight states have electrocution as an option; five have gas chamber as an option; and three have hanging as an option.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mississippi-considers-firing-squad-as-method-of-execution/ar-AAmM0Qn

[longship]

1. Why not the "head pulling-off machine"????

Here -- yup! It's The Onion:

[Ilsa]

4. Okay, you got me. NT

[longship]

5. It is, by definition, beheading. It is also satire. nt

[Ilsa]

6. Yeah, I just replied...

At first, I thought is was a bizarre proposal advanced by an anti-death penalty person to wake people up. The satire alone should get people thinking about WTH we're doing.

[longship]

7. That is my thinking as well.

No more death penalty.

[Ilsa]

2. Why not beheading?

It's certainly traumatizing enough to everyone, but might be less painful. I guess they don't want to resemble ISIS.

[raccoon]

3. Sounds like a banana republic. Oh, yeah, that's right, the US is working on that. nt

[Bohunk68]

8. Maybe instead, that marvelous invention by a French doctor.

But, use modern technology of ceramic-zirconium to fashion the blade, so that it will never need sharpening. Also, the use of silicone lubricants for the groove that said blade fits in. Use Trump-fluffers to test it. Have it on PayTV and sell advertising. Promote it as a place to get knitting done.

[oberliner]

9. What is happening in this country?

How do we even still have the death penalty?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. They could fall back to Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call"

Or anything by Yanni.