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Wyoming Firing Squad Bill by Sen. Bruce Burns Failed To Pass

Wyoming Firing Squad Bill by Sen. Bruce Burns Failed To Pass

By February 11, 2014 Politics No Comments

Sen. Bruce Burns

Sen. Bruce Burns

“A Wyoming lawmaker is pushing to allow use of the firing squad to execute condemned state inmates if constitutional problems or other issues ever prevented the state from using lethal injection.

Sen. Bruce Burns, R-Sheridan, said Monday via The Associated Press that state law currently calls for using a gas chamber if lethal injection is unavailable.

“The state of Wyoming doesn’t have a gas chamber currently, an operating gas chamber, so the procedure and expense to build one would be impractical to me,” said Burns, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

However, the bill failed to pass on Tuesday on a vote of 17 in favor, 13 opposed.

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