TN: After lynching comment, Rep. Sherrell (R) now transfers committees in the House
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Tennessee lawmaker who said he supported bringing back lynching as a form of capital punishment is no longer on the House Criminal Justice Committee.
Rep. Paul Sherrell, R-Sparta, made the comment in early March when the committee was discussing a bill that would allow inmates to consider electrocution as a form of the death penalty instead of lethal injection. At the time, the Tennessee Black Caucus sounded off, outraged that another member would suggest going back to "hanging from a tree." Some members of the Tennessee Black Caucus even asked that Sherrell resigns for his comments.
When NewsChannel 5 asked House Speaker Cameron Sexton's office why the committee assignment was just now changing weeks later, he bypassed the question.
"Rep. Sherrell had discussions with other members concerning his service on the Criminal Justice Committee," Sexton said. "Through much consideration, it was determined by the Speaker that Rep. Sherrell would be transferred to the Transportation Committee. Rep. Sherrell was very agreeable to this change, and he is looking forward to his new committee assignment."
As far as transportation goes, the biggest initiatives of the year have already made their ways out of the House and Senate.
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...what utterly LOATHSOME and reprehensible pos's THEY REALLY ARE.
jump all over themselves in encoding the rights of those condemned to death (by an unjust criminal system none the less) to choose their own form of execution.
How utterly bizarre. Somehow somebody needs to compile and communicate in forceful terms the insanity of conservative thought and public policy. How, and who?
