The Mississippi House wants to allow the state to execute
prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too
expensive or unavailable.
The House amended Senate Bill 2237 last week, which dealt with
making the execution process secret, passing it 80-39 and sending it back to
the Senate for more work.
Attorney General Jim Hood asked lawmakers earlier this year
to approve alternate execution methods including the firing squad,
electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas. Those measures had not passed either chamber, until now.
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