Execution statute, with firing squad, heads to Miss governor

Associated Press ^ | Mar 28, 2017 7:56 PM EDT | Sarah Smith and Jeff Amy

[Olog-hai]

Lawmakers want Mississippi to change how it handles executions, with changes meant to overcome legal challenges to execution drugs, and possibly allow the state to use electrocution and the firing squad as death penalty methods.

The Senate agreed on Tuesday to changes to HB 638, sending it to Gov. Phil Bryant for his approval or veto after the House agreed Monday.

The measure lists four preferred execution methods. The first is lethal injection using a three-drug mixture. After that, in order, the bill specifies poison gas, electrocution and firing squad as execution methods.

The bill is a response to lawsuits tying up Mississippi executions. …

[Reily]

How about det cord?

[WENDLE]

Great!! Put on tv as a deterrent. Awesome. Nomore drugs we cant buy— just shoot the bastard. BOOM!!

[yarddog]

I think if I had to choose, it would be firing squad.

[Publius]

Have ESPN cover it under “Marksmanship.”

[WENDLE]

Great idea. Replay in slow mo!!

[Seaplaner]

Ol’ sparky is a scary way to be terminated, and just might be a useful deterrent.

[WENDLE]

Show the bloody crime scene in the lower right box!!

[Don Corleone]

The old Ruskies had a nifty system. One day, while being escorted along a corridor to a meal or something the guard escort would pull out his pistol and shoot the prisoner in the back of the head. Powski!

[Garth Tater]

I think if I had to choose, it would be firing squad.

Me too. With electrocution being last. I tried that one and didn't like it.

[butlerweave]

.22 or .50 cal

[lurk]

A grave task executing a man, regardless the method. But it must be done.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Guillotine is 100% every time.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Kudos to my former home state for developing a quick and effective solution to the execution “problem.” Other states are wringing their hands over the non-availability of drugs normally used in the execution “cocktail,” because many are made in Europe and they’re aghast that we’re using them to put people to death.

Meanwhile, the folks in Mississippi aren’t waiting for someone to sell them the drugs needed. They’re just breaking out Old Sparky and bringing back firing squads.

[Jonty30]

I like carbon monoxide. You cant sense and you just get sleepy, until you permanently sleep.

[Jonty30]

This seems effective.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA

[daniel1212]

In the Bible from what I have seen, the community normally was to be involved, not simply in providing 2 or 3 eye-witnesses (with false witnesses receiving the punishment their lying incurred), but in stoning the convict to death.

I think this helped to deter false convictions, and made the fact that crime is punished more real to the people, as well as giving them a sense of justice, or recompensing crime.

[MrEdd]

I think water cutter guillotines would be efficient.

[jiggyboy]

For a moment, I imagined a guy with the proposed law in hand followed by a dozen guys with guns marching up the sidewalk of the Governor’s mansion.

[jiggyboy]

For a moment, I imagined a guy with the proposed law in hand followed by a dozen guys with guns marching up the sidewalk of the Governor’s mansion.