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Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is unable to obtain drugs used for lethal injections.
Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.
Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.
With the lethal injection shortage in the U.S., can hanging and stoning be far behind?
Yikes, is this going to be a snuff thread?
I wonder if they sold tee-shirts (if public hangings were in vogue now you'd see concessions of all kinds).
originally posted by: liejunkie01
I support this decision.
These people/animals gave up their rights as human beings when they committed such awful acts to get te death penalty.
Prison time does little to thwart evil acts against humanity.
Why send them to life in prison and feel compassion for them when they felt none for their victims?
Also I think that the death penalty should be enacted only after 110% guilt has been established, not witness testimony only.
We have way too many multiple lifers living off of the taxpayers dime.
These people/animals gave up their rights as human beings when they committed such awful acts to get te death penalty.