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GOP Lawmaker Files Bill to Bring Back Execution by Firing Squads

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A bill filed in the House by Rep. Brad Drake would change Florida’s method of execution from either lethal injection or electrocution to either electrocution or firing squad, with no option for lethal injection.

Drake filed the measure (HB 325) after a conversation that began after he overheard that suggestion from a fellow patron at a Waffle House in DeFuniak Springs, the Florida Current reported Wednesday.

Florida recently executed a man with lethal injection after changing one of the drugs used in the process, but first had to defend the use of the new drug in court. The state has another execution scheduled for next month.

The bill would make electrocution the default method of execution again, but would also allow for firing squad.

Florida executed prisoners for years in an electric chair, but after several executions that raised questions about whether it worked properly, lawmakers voted in 2000 to also allow lethal injection, which is now the standard option, though condemned prisoners still, under current law, have the option to choose electrocution.

“There shouldn’t be anything controversial about a .45-caliber bullet,” Drake, R-Eucheeanna, told the Current. “If it were up to me we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and be done with it.”

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  1. With all that’s going in our state THIS is what you determine important? And people keep voting for these cretins.

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