Florida’s Brad Drake wants harsher executions
Lethal injection is just such a pleasant way to die. At least according to Florida state Rep. Brad Drake, who wants to put an end to the execution method in the state.
He argues that Death Row killers shouldn’t be allowed to “get off that easy”; the electric chair would be more appropriate he says—as would a firing squad. Drake this week filed a bill that would put an end to lethal injection and give convicts facing death the choice of the latter two, reports the AP.
“I think if you ask a hundred people, not even talking to criminals, how would you like to die, if you were drowned, if you were shot, and if you say you were put to sleep, 90% of some of the people would say I want to be put to sleep,” says the Republican, who apparently equates lethal injection with taking a permanent nap. “Let’s put our pants back on the right way,” Drake urges, adding that his proposed switch would force death row inmates to think about their punishment “every morning.” And they’d be getting off easy, because, as reported by the Florida Current, if it were up to Drake, “we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it.”
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Hmm, just how everyone should go about making big decisions. Go to the local greasy spoon like he says he did and listen to one idiot, then voila you’ve got legislation. Maybe they could combine this with the dwarf tossing legislation from another Florida pol and they can put it up on pay per view. Hey, it might help with the budget there and that is as good a suggestion as any amirite?
I loved in Florida for 20 years and it gets nuttier by the day it seems.
Really good friend of mine, speaking of nuts, just moved to the Miami area for her job and she traveled to republican country by error. Like I told her, the bright spot is Florida just got a new democratic vote but it won’t count if they have anything to do with it.
Another idiot.