Bill: Alter Mississippi execution methods to sidestep suits
Source: Associated Press
Jeff Amy, Associated Press Updated 5:37 pm, Thursday, January 26, 2017
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi — facing repeated court challenges to lethal injection and the difficulty of finding drugs — could start looking at alternative ways to carry out the death penalty.
A state House committee on Thursday approved legislation to explicitly legalize the drugs Mississippi currently plans to use to execute death row inmates.
The bill also calls for other methods of execution — including the gas chamber, the firing squad and the electric chair — as backups, given court challenges of those drugs.
Passed by the House Judiciary B Committee, House Bill 638 moves to the House for more debate.
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