03-21-2017, 08:31 PM
Going Old-School
Since Europe refused to continue supplying the U.S. with the drugs which are key to the lethal injection cocktail a couple of years back, many death-penalty states have been struggling to carry out executions.
Arkansas is the first state I've heard about planning mass executions while they've got some in supply though.
Three other states have simply elected to go old-school execution to avoid the problem.
Oklahoma reintroduced the gas chamber, Utah the firing squad and Tennessee the electric chair in response to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death row inmates.
Mississippi may become the fourth. Mississippi lawmakers want to bring back the firing squad, electric chair and gas chamber as execution methods, but for a different reason. State legislator Andy Gipson said he introduced House Bill 638 in response to lawsuits filed by “liberal, left-wing radicals” challenging the use of lethal injection drugs as cruel and unusual punishment.
Ref: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/10/mis...ethod.html
Since Europe refused to continue supplying the U.S. with the drugs which are key to the lethal injection cocktail a couple of years back, many death-penalty states have been struggling to carry out executions.
Arkansas is the first state I've heard about planning mass executions while they've got some in supply though.
Three other states have simply elected to go old-school execution to avoid the problem.
Oklahoma reintroduced the gas chamber, Utah the firing squad and Tennessee the electric chair in response to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death row inmates.
Mississippi may become the fourth. Mississippi lawmakers want to bring back the firing squad, electric chair and gas chamber as execution methods, but for a different reason. State legislator Andy Gipson said he introduced House Bill 638 in response to lawsuits filed by “liberal, left-wing radicals” challenging the use of lethal injection drugs as cruel and unusual punishment.
Ref: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/10/mis...ethod.html