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    We thought the same thing with Ohio.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Mike DeWhine is the biggest bust I can think of. He is the Ryan Leaf/JaMarcus Russell of death penalty state governors. I don't think MS will execute again.
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    It's clear he doesn't want any executions to proceed yes, hopefully he doesn't pull a George Ryan.

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    If you read this document, Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan filed an appeal to SCOTUS about the constitutionality of Mississippi’s death penalty, per the Bucklew case. It will likely be heard by SCOTUS later this year or early next year. Once denied, I’m guessing Mississippi will restart executions in 2021

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketP...on%20FINAL.pdf
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    Analysis: Mississippi reveals it has lethal injection drugs

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has not executed a death row inmate since June 2012, and no executions are currently scheduled. But a new court filing shows that the state Department of Corrections in recent months has acquired drugs to carry out lethal injections.

    Attorneys for the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center sued the Mississippi prison system in April 2015 on behalf of two death row inmates, saying the state’s lethal injection protocol is inhumane.

    The lawsuit is still going on, and it specifically tries to block Mississippi from using compounded pentobarbital as the first of three drugs in executions. A compounded drug is one made in a pharmacy.

    Mississippi and several other states have had trouble finding drugs for lethal injections in recent years since pharmaceutical companies in the United States and Europe began blocking the use of their drugs for executions.

    The Mississippi inmates' lawsuit describes pentobarbital as “a short-acting or intermediate-acting barbiturate ... intended to sufficiently anesthetize the prisoner so that he is both unconscious and insensate when the executioner injects the second and third drugs.”

    In papers filed July 29 in federal court in Jackson, the inmates' attorneys said they had demanded information from the Mississippi Department of Corrections about efforts to acquire lethal injection drugs. They said the department — MDOC, for short — had been evasive or vague.

    But the filing also quoted one answer that the department gave in June: “MDOC recently contacted potential suppliers to determine whether they could provide any of the execution drugs listed in MDOC’s Lethal Injection Protocol. As a result of these efforts, MDOC acquired midazolam, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride.”

    A Department of Corrections spokesman on Friday did not immediately respond to several questions from The Associated Press, including how much of each of the three drugs the department acquired, the total cost of the drugs and when the drugs will expire. Mississippi has 37 men and one woman on death row.

    As the first drug in a three-drug protocol, Mississippi in the past has had a form of pentobarbital manufactured in factories inspected by the Food and Drug Administration, not compounded in a pharmacy.

    Midazolam would be a different first drug. It is a sedative used before medical procedures. Seven states have also used it as part of a three-drug series to execute inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    The center is critical of how capital punishment is carried out. It said midazolam was used in a “botched” execution in 2014 in Oklahoma, where witnesses saw the prisoner writhe on a gurney before dying of a heart attack, and in problematic executions in 2016 in Alabama and 2017 in Alabama.

    When the federal government executed prisoners in 2020, it used pentobarbital as the only drug. A few other states have used the same single-drug lethal injection protocol.

    Mississippi's executions are done in the State Penitentiary at Parchman. The inmates' lawsuit said the Department of Corrections in May 2012 first ordered compounded drugs for possible use in executions, but it also said Parchman lacks a pharmacy suitable for compounding sterile drugs.

    The lawsuit said the Department of Corrections intended to execute the inmates with “compounded drugs that may be counterfeit, expired, contaminated and/or sub-potent" and that using compounded drugs "substantially risks that Plaintiffs may be conscious throughout their executions and will experience a torturous death by suffocation and cardiac arrest.”

    Mississippi lawmakers in 2017 added electrocution and firing squad as execution methods. The change was pushed by Republican Andy Gipson, who is now the state agriculture commissioner but was then chairman of the House Judiciary B Committee. He said it was a direct response to lawsuits filed by “liberal, left-wing radicals" to challenge the use of certain execution drugs.

    https://www.theintelligencer.com/new...l-16373188.php


    6 years to resolve a lawsuit? That’s ridiculous. The lawsuit has been stretched for way longer than it should’ve. Jim Hood announced execution plans back in 2017. Here we are 4 years later with a lawsuit that hasn’t been resolved yet.
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    I'm not holding my breath on any of these states ever. The closest was SC, and they may have succeeded were it not for that poison pill firing squad amendment. These states and DOCs are led by feckless dullards of Lilliputian intellect. Do yourselves a favor, everyone, and drastically temper your expectations. Divest yourself of any vestigial faith you may still cling to.
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    New law gives MDOC commissioner choice in how people are executed

    By Mina Corpuz
    Mississippi Today

    Mississippi is set to become the first state where prison officials can choose how a person sentenced to death is executed.

    Starting July 1, the Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain and two deputy commissioners will decide the method of execution for incarcerated people: lethal injection, gas chamber, electrocution or firing squad.

    “This statute throws it all into the hands of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without guidance and restrictions,” said Ngozi Ndulue, deputy director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

    Twenty-seven states have the death penalty. Ndulue said most use lethal injection as the primary execution method and some have backup execution methods if lethal injection isn’t available.

    Cain has witnessed several executions as the former warden of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison and Mississippi’s most recent execution as the corrections commissioner.

    “The courts are the ones who decide the penalties for crime, not MDOC,” he said in a Friday statement. “We just hold the keys. When the court orders me, I am required by Mississippi statute to carry out the sentence.”

    The law does not specify how MDOC officials are supposed to decide what execution method to select.

    Ndulue said this can lead to decisions being made in an “internal, non-transparent way.” There are considerations, including whether lethal injection drugs are available and there are protocols and training of how to use other forms of execution, she said.

    Mississippi is also a state that has a lot of secrecy about its execution protocols and how it obtains lethal injection drugs, she said.

    “This is something the public doesn’t have a lot of insight into,” Ndulue said. “What is actually going on?”

    MDOC officials will have this new responsibility through House Bill 1479 proposed by Rep. Nick Bain, R-Corinth. He chairs the Judiciary B Committee and is vice chair of the Judiciary En Banc Committee.

    Bain said the governor and attorney general’s offices asked for the legislation to be filed because the state was having difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs to carry out death sentences.

    The previous version of the law, passed in 2017, said if lethal injection was not possible due to unavailable drugs or a legal challenge, an incarcerated person could be put to death by gas chamber. Electrocution was the next option if lethal gas was unavailable and the last alternate was execution by firing squad.

    Lethal injection remains Mississippi’s preferred form of execution, according to legislation.

    “We put language in the final draft saying it is our policy, as the Legislature, that lethal injection be chosen,” Bain said. “That gives (the commissioner) the idea that we want lethal injection and that should be the way to do it.”

    Within seven days of receiving a warrant of execution from the Mississippi Supreme Court, the MDOC commissioner must inform the prisoner of the method in writing.

    Ndulue said the law could lead to last minute legal action about executions. For Mississippi’s most recent execution, there was less than 30 days between the execution being issued and being carried out.

    States have argued they need backup methods of execution because of challenges of obtaining lethal injection drugs, she said.

    Ndulue said some drug manufacturers have objected to their drugs being used for executions. Some states have resorted to getting lethal injection drugs from overseas or going to compounding pharmacies to have the drugs made, she said.

    Lethal injection has also been called into question through legal action.

    An ongoing federal civil lawsuit filed in 2015 on behalf of three people serving on death row in Mississippi argues the state’s lethal injection protocol violates their right to due process and violates the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

    Mississippi and other states have used a mix of three drugs including an anesthetic during executions.

    The lawsuit claims compounded or mixed drugs could be “counterfeit, expired, contaminated and/or sub-potent” and could result in prisoners being conscious throughout their execution and subjected to “a tortuous death by suffocation and cardiac arrest.”

    The bill that goes into effect next month specifies the lethal injection drugs used in execution must be “a substance or substance in a lethal quantity” rather than one containing an anesthetic, paralytic agent and potassium chloride, as the 2017 version of the law laid out.

    From the early 1800s to 1940, all Mississippi executions were by hanging, according to MDOC. Execution by electrocution took place from 1940 to 1952, followed by the use of a portable electric chair moved from county to county. Lethal gas executions took place between 1954 and 1984.

    Mississippi carried out 35 gas chamber executions between 1955 and 1989, according to MDOC.

    Between 2002 and 2022, 18 people were executed by lethal injection in the state, according to MDOC.

    All executions are performed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which is where death row is.

    For women, executions happen in a facility designated by the MDOC commissioner, according to state law. The one woman serving on death row is at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl.

    Mississippi’s most recent execution was that of David Neal Cox on Nov. 17, 2021.

    He was convicted on multiple charges, including the murder of his estranged wife, Kim Cox, and the sexual assault of his then-underage stepdaughter in front of his dying wife in 2010 in Union County.

    https://mississippitoday.org/2022/06...cution-choice/
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    Any chance of this finally restarting involuntary executions?
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    No. This is another nebulous piece of legislation that will cause more problems than it solves, requiring more disambiguation from the courts. Another idiotic and grandstanding bandaid on a bullet wound.
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    Fun fact: every person who works for the Death Penalty Information Center thinks it's perfectly fine for the U.S. Congress to delegate its legislative authority to unelected bureaucrats in every area that doesn't help criminals.

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