A invoice filed within the Florida state Senate would broaden the strategies by which demise row inmates might be executed.
Senate Bill 1604, launched by state Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, goals to guard Florida’s standing as a demise penalty state if sure execution strategies like electrocution or authorized injection are made unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or the Florida Supreme Court, or if deadly injection medicine are unable to be obtained sooner or later.
There is presently a scarcity of pentobarbital, the drug used for deadly injections, which has a number of states scrambling to seek out different execution strategies.
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Florida lawmakers need to broaden demise penalty strategies within the state. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
If that occurs in Florida, the invoice mandates that “all persons sentenced to death for a capital crime shall be executed by a method not deemed unconstitutional.”
Martin instructed the Tampa Bay Times that his laws will be certain that the state fulfills the legislation and follows by way of on executions.
Tuesday, the invoice handed by way of the Florida Senate’s Committee on Criminal Justice.
Wednesday, state Rep. Berny Jaques, R-Largo, launched a companion invoice within the Florida House of Representatives.
“I filed House Bill 903 because I believe government’s primary role is to protect public safety, and the death penalty plays a vital part in that,” Jaques instructed Fox News Digital. “This bill ensures Florida can uphold constitutional death sentences without delay by giving the Department of Corrections the flexibility to use any lawful method if current options become unavailable.”
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A chair sits within the execution chamber on the Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Draper, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune through AP, Pool, File)
The invoice doesn’t specify which different execution strategies might be used, however eight states already authorize using some type of deadly fuel as a backup to deadly injection, in accordance with the Death Penalty Information Center. In 4 of these states – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma – nitrogen fuel is particularly named because the lethal chemical agent utilized in such executions.
Four different states enable demise by firing squad as an alternative choice to deadly injection, and South Carolina permits it as an alternative choice to electrocution, its default technique of execution.
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In March, demise row inmate Brad Sigmon of South Carolina was executed by firing squad. He was the primary particular person within the United States to be executed in that method in additional than 15 years.
Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating to demise his estranged girlfriend’s mother and father in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
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Lethal injection is by far the most well-liked execution technique, accounting for 1,431 of all executions since 1976. Electrocution is second, accounting for 163.
