The House Criminal Justice Committee of the Tennessee legislature was discussing a bill to add the firing squad to electrocution and lethal injection as the state’s death penalty options when Rep. Sherrell suggested one more: 'hanging on a tree.'
The House Criminal Justice Committee of the Tennessee legislature was discussing a bill to add the firing squad to electrocution and lethal injection as the state’s death penalty options when Rep.“Could I put an amendment on that that would include hanging on a tree, also?” he inquired during Tuesday’s proceedings.
The prospect of stringing someone from a tree has a particular history in a southern state such as Tennessee, especially in some of the rural communities such as Sherrell represents. That includes his hometown, Sparta, where a runaway slave was dragged from the jail and hung from a tree on a hill in the town cemetery in 1855. One man tried to stop the lynching, and a newspaper recorded the mob’s reply.And Sherrell was not talking about a gallows on Tuesday.
And Sherrell’s bigotry is not limited to race. He was a co-sponsor of a 2020 bill that ensures private adoption and foster care agencies can reject gay couples. Just last month, he championed a bill to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths “Paul Sherrell is an extraordinary legislative leader who is admired and respected by his Republican colleagues,” House Majority Leader William Lamberth was quoted saying at the time of the selection in 2018.
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