A Tennessee lawmaker has received backlash after calling for the state of Tennessee to bring back hanging-by-tree executions.
Rep. Paul Sherill during a recent legislative session for an introduction of a bill that would bring back firing squads and the electric chair wanted to make an amendment that would bring back the excecution method of hanging by a tree.
Sherill was quoted saying “I think it’s a very good idea, and I was just wondering about… could I put an amendment on that it would include hanging by a tree, also?”
Watch him say it here:
WATCH – Tennessee Rep. Paul Sherrell (R) asks to add lynching as a method of execution to a bill.
“Could I put an amendment on that that would include hanging by a tree also?”pic.twitter.com/se3XR0LcPk
— The Black Wall Street Times (@TheBWSTimes) March 1, 2023
Sherrell would later apologize for his comments after his…
