RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has proposed making significant changes to a bill that sought to allow the state to force condemned inmates to die in the electric chair when lethal injection drugs aren’t available.
The Democratic governor’s amendment to the bill aims to make it easier for the state to obtain lethal injection drugs by keeping secret the identities of the compounding pharmacies that supply them.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly would have to approve McAuliffe’s amendment when it returns April 20. A similar bill pushed by the governor failed last year.
Drug companies have protested the use of their products in executions, forcing lawmakers across the country to consider alternative methods of capital punishment to deal with the shortage.
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Fuck that, McAuliffe. That makes the death penalty even worse than it already is, if that’s even possible. If he doesn’t want the State to be held liable, then don’t allow the death penalty by lethal injection at all. An amendment to let the culprits from a pharmacy that dispenses bad drugs on behalf of Virginia to kill people, is actually worse than the death penalty itself. It allows the State to codify a law towards cruel and unusual punishment when the awful thing doesn’t work as planned. I can’t think of anything more repulsive. Legislating cruelty and no accountability by the state is simply disgusting.
No.