State Rep. files bill to add firing squad to death penalty laws -- NWfladaileynews

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way Rep Drake thinks...we do need good ole Florida style justice back in the state and nation...imo! Great Read!!

October 11, 2011 9:12 PM


Lauren Sage Reinlie

Daily News


State Rep. Brad Drake filed a bill Tuesday that would eliminate lethal injection as a method for execution in Florida. Instead, people facing the death penalty would be allowed to choose execution by firing squad.

Electrocution still would be allowed under the bill.
•View a copy of the bill.

Drake, R-Eucheeanna, said in a news release issued Tuesday night that he filed the bill in response to debate over the effectiveness of certain drugs used in lethal injection executions.

“So, I say let’s end the debate,” he said in the release. “We still have Old Sparky. And if that doesn’t suit the criminal, then we will provide them a .45 caliber lead cocktail instead.”

In the release, Drake said the bill was in reaction to a group of doctors and legal experts who had been asking Gov. Rick Scott for a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, a 61-year-old man convicted of murder in the death of a law enforcement officer in Miami in 1978.

Valle was executed late last month after 33 years on death row. He was the first Florida inmate executed using pentobarbital as the first of three drugs in the injection.

His lawyers questioned the drug, saying it had not been tested for use to render an inmate unconscious.

“I am sick and tired of this sensitivity movement for criminals,” Drake said. “Every time there is a warranted execution that is about to take place, some man or woman is standing on a corner holding a sign, yelling and screaming for humane treatment.

“I have no desire to humanely respect those that are inhumane,” he said in the release.


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Report: Lawmaker wants firing squad for Florida murderers--OS

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October 13, 2011
A Panhandle legislator wants to bring firing squads to Florida and offer murderers the option of bullets or the electric chair — but not lethal injection, nwfdailynews.com is reporting.

Rep. Brad Davis, R-Eucheeanna, said he filed the bill in response to doctors and lawyers who have been arguing for a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, who was convicted of murdering a law officer in Miami in 1978, the website reports

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-firing-squad-florida-brad-drake-20111013,0,5095762.story

I think they call that "let the punishment fit the crime" and I've wondered for years why they didn't do it - well since other methods are cruel and inhumane it makes sense. Gotta love this guy's rhetoric too; his logic is so good it would be hard to argue.

ladibug wrote: I think they call that "let the punishment fit the crime" and I've wondered for years why they didn't do it - well since other methods are cruel and inhumane it makes sense. Gotta love this guy's rhetoric too; his logic is so good it would be hard to argue.

always say that a bullet is cheaper than other methods. (if the executioner is a good shot of course--LOL!)