Post by pavel on Jan 28, 2016 5:00:23 GMT -6
Mississippi AG wants state to mull firing squad, nitrogen gas as execution options
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's attorney general said Wednesday that he will ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution in case the state is prevented from giving lethal injections.
States are struggling to obtain execution drugs since European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products for lethal injections. Executions are on hold in Mississippi because the state's supply of lethal-injection drugs expired. In October, Ohio delayed executions for a year while it searches for the drugs.
"It just provides a fallback position in case there is some declaration of unconstitutionality or some of the anti-death-penalty groups are able to shut down the flow of chemicals that are required to carry out executions," Democrat Jim Hood said of the alternatives.
The ACLU of Mississippi issued a statement Wednesday rejecting all of them.
Read more: www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/01/mississippi_ag_eyes_push_for_f.html
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's attorney general said Wednesday that he will ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution in case the state is prevented from giving lethal injections.
States are struggling to obtain execution drugs since European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products for lethal injections. Executions are on hold in Mississippi because the state's supply of lethal-injection drugs expired. In October, Ohio delayed executions for a year while it searches for the drugs.
"It just provides a fallback position in case there is some declaration of unconstitutionality or some of the anti-death-penalty groups are able to shut down the flow of chemicals that are required to carry out executions," Democrat Jim Hood said of the alternatives.
The ACLU of Mississippi issued a statement Wednesday rejecting all of them.
Read more: www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/01/mississippi_ag_eyes_push_for_f.html