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

[The Straight Story]

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.

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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.

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

[RockaFowler]

1. You know I love this state, but I hate the Reps

THey make us all look so bad, Just an awful disgusting man

[saras]

2. Did someone ask him about the innocent ones?

[gratuitous]

3. *Swoon*

Oh, Brad! Take me, you virile hunk of he-man!