MS House bill addresses methods of execution

Mississippi could sidestep lawsuits with other execution methods

Mississippi, facing repeated court challenges to lethal injection and the difficulty of finding drugs for executions, could start looking at alternative ways to carry out the death penalty.

A state House committee Thursday approved legislation to explicitly legalize the current drugs Mississippi plans to use to execute death row inmates.

The bill also calls for other methods of execution, including the gas chamber, the firing squad and the electric chair, as backup methods of execution.

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1/26/17