Remember the bill in the Utah legislature to bring back the firing squad as an alternative capital punishment method to lethal injection? Remember how Utah Governor Gary Herbert was reticent about whether or not he would sign it?
He signed it:
“We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty, and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued,” Herbert spokesman Marty Carpenter said. “However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch.” The measure’s approval is the latest illustration of some states’ frustration over bungled executions and difficulty obtaining the drugs. Utah is one of several states seeking new forms of capital punishment after a botched Oklahoma lethal injection last year.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican Representative Paul Ray of Clearfield, argued that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more decent than the drawn-out deaths involved when lethal injections go awry — or even if they go as planned.
Just so.
Opponents of the measure say firing squads are barbaric, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah saying the bill makes the state “look backward and backwoods.”
Well, yeah, but the Left already considers Utah "backward and backwoods," so who cares what the ACLU thinks?
You want to know the punchline to this story? Guess where the difficulties with lethal injection drugs came from?:
European manufacturers of the lethal drug components have refused to sell the components to U.S. prison systems as they are opposed to capital punishment.
That is some delicious poetic justice, right there. Most mouth-watering indeed.
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