ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers. Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid
States Consider Reviving Old-Fashioned Executions
“Many of these politicians are trying to tap into a more populist theme that those who do terrible things deserve to have terrible things happen to them…”