Wyoming firing squad? No, says state senate.
Wyoming firing squad? No, says state senate.
Wyoming firing squad? No, says state senate.
Wyoming firing squad bill: Wyoming currently uses lethal injection to execute criminals, with a gas chamber as a backup. But logistical problems – like Wyoming not having any gas chambers – prompted a bill to consider death by firing squad.
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.
I fail to see why it wouldn't be allowed. Bullets have proven to be very effective in dispensing death. Of course they used this as justification.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
^^^^^ What is cruel or unusual about bullets if death is ordered by the court judgment? Use 4 top marksmen with 3 live rounds, prisoner with a one inch red dot placed right over the heart. One blank round so that each shooter can chose to think his was the blank shot. If the death sentence has been deemed not unusual punishment why then would using bullets to do it then be so considered?--Tyr
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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