CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Senate has voted not to consider a bill to allow the use of firing squads to execute condemned inmates.
Lethal injection is the method laid out in state law, with the gas chamber as a backup.
The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Bruce Burns, says states have had trouble getting drugs for lethal injection.
Wyoming doesn't have a gas chamber and he questioned the expense of building one for infrequent executions.
The bill would have required approval by two-thirds of senators for introduction. It failed Tuesday on a vote of 17 in favor, 13 opposed.
Wyoming has one inmate on death row.
Source: MSN News February 12, 2014
No word on whether anyone questioned the value of the death penalty.
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