Apparently, following in Rick Perry’s footsteps by killing people through lethal injection is just too slow and burdensome for a Republican Representative in Florida. Who needs to waste time injecting three different levels of poison in a human being, putting them to sleep and stopping their heart beat, when you can just line them up and shoot?
Well, that’s exactly what the bill Brad Drake proposed will allow done to Death Row prisoners in Florida;
Saying it’s time to stop letting convicted killers “get off that easy,” a Florida state lawmaker wants to use firing squads or the electric chair for those on death row.
Rep. Brad Drake filed a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injection in Florida executions.
Instead, those with a death sentence would choose between electrocution or a firing squad.
Drake, a Republican, said the idea came to him after having a conversation with a constituent at a Waffle House over the legal battles associated with last month’s execution of Manuel Valle .
Valle’s lawyers tried to stop the execution by arguing that a new lethal drug cocktail would cause him pain and constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
So, to stop lawyers from arguing “cruel and unusual punishment,” Drake wants to line ’em up and shoot, or just fry ’em in the electric chair! Yay for morality!
In contemplating how best to deal with death row inmates, Rep. Brad Drake absorbed some home-spun wisdom from the friendly folk at the Waffle House near his home town of Eucheeanna (pop. 11). Drake suggests we give inmates a choice-either a "45-caliber lead cocktail" or a blast from old Sparky. If you don't choose in 30 days, it's the chair for you. My favorite part is his saying he'd rather just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge "and be done with it". Brad, did you get spanked THAT much as a child?
I have a better suggestion; instead of hauling inmates to the Skyway, why not toss them off of "Bo's Bridge"? You remember Bo's Bridge, that famous monument to north Florida good-old-boyism? By throwing them off that bridge, Bo himself will be vindicated of having foisted a boondoggle on our states taxpayers.
"I knew this bridge would have a use for somethin' someday!" I can hear old Bo' proclaiming even now.
What happened to the,"RIGHT TO LIFE", talk about , FLIP FLOPPING!