Saturday, 18 January 2014

Concerned US lawmakers considering firing squad executions

A sign of the times? 

With European manufacturers boycotting the sale of the drugs normally used to painlessly execute prisoners in the US, some politicians are getting in a panic.

In at least two US states, authorities who have not been able to obtain the lethal injection drugs are especially worried. They are now stating that they would be “open” to executing the prisoners via the good old firing squad method, which has disappeared in most of the civilized world....

Read more: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/16365098-concerned-lawmakers-considering-firing-squad-executions