Brad Drake, Florida State Representative, Proposes Execution By Electric Chair, Firing Squad

[Tx4obama]

Brad Drake, Florida State Representative, Proposes Execution By Electric Chair, Firing Squad

Here's a piece of legislation you don't see every day. One Florida state Rep. is proposing a big change to the way his state handles executions. Brad Drake, a Republican, filed a bill Tuesday to eliminate lethal injection and bring back executions by electrocution or firing squad.

"We still have Old Sparky. And if that doesn't suit the criminal, then we will provide them a .45 caliber lead cocktail instead," he said in a press release.

Florida retired its electric chair in 2000 after several inmates caught fire during executions. Inmates may request the chair in lieu of lethal injection. However, Florida last used the chair in 1999. Under Drake's bill, electrocution would be the primary mode of execution, but inmates could request a firing squad.

According to the Florida Current, the idea came to him in a local Waffle House. He reportedly overheard a constituent say that "they ought to just put them in the electric chair or line them up in front of a firing squad." "There shouldn't be anything controversial about a .45-caliber bullet. If it were up to me we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it," Drake told the Current.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/brad-drake-florida-death-penalty_n_1007540.html

[rurallib]

1. maybe he could offer to test them out........

[Cid_B]

2. With the "concerns" about lethal injection...

There should be other options for the DP...

There are ways to be sure of death, just not so many that accomplish that and leave a pretty corpse for burial.

[Puregonzo1188]

3. "Florida retired its electric chair in 2000 after several inmates caught fire during executions."

Jesus Christ what is wrong with us as a society?

[Hippo_Tron]

4. I'm all for switching to firing squad

Lethal injection is just a good way for us to pretend that executions are "humane".

[leftstreet]

5. +1

I hate these threads

[hatrack]

6. Wow, is there no limit to the creativity, imagination and beauty of Republican politicians' ideas?

:puke: