USA - Mississippi. The House amended Senate Bill 2237 to allow the state prison system to execute prisoners using a firing squad

The House amended Senate Bill 2237 to allow the state prison system to execute prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too expensive or unavailable. Rep. Robert Foster, R-DeSoto, offered the amendment to legislation that was designed to keep secret the identities of the suppliers of the execution drugs, members of the execution team and members of the victim's and killer's family. The amendment passed 70-39. Then the overall bill passed 80-39. The proposal now goes back to the Senate, which can accept the House changes to the proposal or to invite conference to try to work out the differences.