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03-26-2016, 05:54 PM
Mississippi House approves firing squad as execution method
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JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi House wants to allow the state to execute prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too expensive or unavailable.
The House amended Senate Bill 2237 Friday, which dealt with making the execution process secret, passing it 80-39 and sending it back to the Senate for more work.
SEE ALSO: Ohio rules to execute man who survived botched execution (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/ohio-botched-execution-redo/)
Attorney General Jim Hood asked lawmakers earlier this year to approve alternate execution methods including the firing squad, electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas. Those measures had **t, until Friday, passed either chamber. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/26/mississippi-firing-squad/)
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JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi House wants to allow the state to execute prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too expensive or unavailable.
The House amended Senate Bill 2237 Friday, which dealt with making the execution process secret, passing it 80-39 and sending it back to the Senate for more work.
SEE ALSO: Ohio rules to execute man who survived botched execution (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/ohio-botched-execution-redo/)
Attorney General Jim Hood asked lawmakers earlier this year to approve alternate execution methods including the firing squad, electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas. Those measures had **t, until Friday, passed either chamber. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/26/mississippi-firing-squad/)
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