Tennessee Senate advances bill to bring back electric chair

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Tennessee Senate advances bill to bring back electric chair

BY TIM GHIANNI
NASHVILLE, Tenn Wed Apr 9, 2014 9:22pm EDT

(Reuters) - Tennessee's electric chair would be pressed back into service for executions if the state cannot obtain drugs needed to carry out lethal injections under a bill advanced Wednesday by state lawmakers.

The Tennessee Senate voted 23-3 to advance the proposal that would bring back electrocution as the method of execution if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional or the drugs cannot be obtained. Tennessee last used the electric chair in 2007.

The proposal follows Tennessee's decision in September to adopt the sedative pentobarbital as a single-drug method of execution. States have found it increasingly hard to obtain drugs for executions because many pharmaceutical firms, mainly in Europe, object to their use in capital punishment.

The bill's sponsor, Senator Ken Yager, said it "closes a loophole in current law." A companion bill is moving through the state House of Representatives.

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[CFLDem]

1. Idiots.

Just work them to death turning big rocks into little rocks.

Much more satisfying.

[madaboutharry]

2. They could buy a guillotine, or

bring back the firing squad, or maybe public hangings. If those methods of killing criminals are too gruesome, than all methods are too gruesome.

[dballance]

3. I believe some states are considering the firing squad.

I like your point.