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| Greer: State may have to resume use of electric chair |
| By decaturdaily.com- Mary Sell |
| Published: 08/01/2014 |
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MONTGOMERY — A north Alabama lawmaker says he thinks the state will have to return to using the electric chair to execute death row inmates if it won’t give complete immunity to the makers of lethal injection drugs. Rep. Lynn Greer, R-Rogersville, said he will discuss on Monday with Department of Corrections officials and the state district attorneys association the possibility of bringing back the electric chair as the state’s primary method of executions. If needed, Greer said he will carry legislation for the change in the next session. In 2002, Alabama switched from the electric chair to lethal injection as the state’s primary form of capital punishment. Inmates can still request the chair, but executions have been on hold this year, since the state ran out of one of the three drugs in its lethal injection mixture. Read More. |
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