03-11-2015, 12:13 AM
^ She got her requested final meal, but she's still alive -- her execution was stayed due to a death drug appeal.
Meanwhile...
UTAH PASSES LAW TO ALLOW FIRING SQUADS TO FACILITATE EXECUTIONS
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Yep, the bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, touted the measure as being a more humane form of execution.
'We would love to get the lethal injection worked out so we can continue with that but if not, now we have a backup plan,' Ray told The Associated Press.
Opponents, however, said firing squads are a cruel holdover from the state's wild West days and will earn the state international condemnation.
'I think Utah took a giant step backward,' said Ralph Dellapiana, director of Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. He called firing squads 'a relic of a more barbaric past.'
Meanwhile...
UTAH PASSES LAW TO ALLOW FIRING SQUADS TO FACILITATE EXECUTIONS
Yep, the bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, touted the measure as being a more humane form of execution.
'We would love to get the lethal injection worked out so we can continue with that but if not, now we have a backup plan,' Ray told The Associated Press.
Opponents, however, said firing squads are a cruel holdover from the state's wild West days and will earn the state international condemnation.
'I think Utah took a giant step backward,' said Ralph Dellapiana, director of Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. He called firing squads 'a relic of a more barbaric past.'