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‘A hell of a lot less expensive’ than lethal injection: Could Indiana use firing squads?
The governor said Indiana no longer has any usable lethal injection drugs. Instead of purchasing more — and risking ...
Firing squad, hanging to be proposed as death penalty options in Indiana
An Indiana lawmaker has proposed changes to how the state conducts executions.State Representative Jim Lucas (R) of Seymour ...
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Indiana lawmaker calls for hangings, firing squads to be used as state execution methods
Indiana State Representative Jim Lucas has proposed the state consider using firing squads and hangings as methods for ...
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Lucas cheapens death penalty discussion
It’s no surprise that Seymour Republican Rep. Jim Lucas wants Indiana to consider bringing back firing squads or even the ...
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Indiana Execution Controversy
Indiana plans to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10 for the 2001 murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. The state spent $300,000 ...
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Indy Women Hoop: how a local group is making the game more accessible for women
CBS4's Scarlett O'Hara spoke with a man who took a shooting victim to the hospital over the weekend. A doorbell video camera ...
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More executions? Some doubts rise amid concerns about the high cost of lethal-injection drugs
State officials spent $1.175 million on lethal injection doses over the past year — $600,000 of which was spent on drugs that ...
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Indiana prepares for October execution amidst heated death penalty debate
INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.
Utah judge schedules execution by firing squad for a man with dementia
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his ...