Wyoming Senate Votes Down Bill Allowing Firing-Squad Executions

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

AP – FEBRUARY 11, 2014, 3:17 PM EST

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Senate has voted not to consider a bill to allow the use of firing squads to execute condemned inmates.

Lethal injection is the method laid out in state law, with the gas chamber as a backup.
The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Bruce Burns, says states have had trouble getting drugs for lethal injection. Wyoming doesn't have a gas chamber and he questioned the expense of building one for infrequent executions.

The bill would have required approval by two-thirds of senators for introduction. It failed Tuesday on a vote of 17 in favor, 13 opposed.

Wyoming has one inmate on death row. Dale Wayne Eaton is appealing the death sentence he received in 2004 in the rape and murder of 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell of Billings, Mont.

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[riverwalker]

1. 17 voted in favor?

[tofuandbeer]

2. Holy Moses! These Republicans are so backwards! What's next Sen Burns: abolishing child labor laws?

Public hangings? The Guillotine?

[warrant46]

3. Burning at the Stake--- A time Honored Tradition

Let out school Early so the children can get a Civics lesson in Crime and Punishment

February 12, 1918- A man charged with the murder of two men at Estill Springs, Tennessee, was burned at the stake at about 7:00 o’clock in the morning by an angry mob of over 1,500 people. He was burned to death by the sticking of red hot irons to his body while being tied to a stake. The burning occurred about one fourth of a mile out of Estill Springs, Tennessee.

[struggle4progress]

7. Some folk just didn't get trials in Tennessee back them

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Eli Persons was burned to death in Memphis, May 1917
Ligan Scott was burned to death in Dyersville, December 1917
G. W. Lych was lynched Estill Springs, February 1918
two days later, Jim McIlherron was burned to death in Estill Springs, February 1918

[warrant46]

8. The South has a great tradition to uphold

They still need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century

[struggle4progress]

9. It depends on exactly where you are. I live in one of the bluest towns in the US,

but in a state where voters overall are about evenly split between Ds and Rs

[yuiyoshida]

10. I am surprised he didn't suggest

Crucifixion.

[llmart]

4. Deadeye Dick Cheney is disappointed.....

He was hoping to be enlisted to be part of the firing squad.

What a commentary on the state of Wyoming that this was even thought of.

[jmowreader]

11. They wouldn't accept Deadeye Dick as a member of any firing squad

The one guy Cheney shot, he survived.

[FreeState]

5. 1 in 9 people in Wyoming are from a background of firing squads as a religious belief

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_atonement

Just saying... not that they teach that anymore, but it is part of their past.

[geek tragedy]

6. Why do so many murderers have a middle name "Wayne"? nt

[Julian Englis]

12. So that's what the "W" really stood for. n/t