"What we ought to do is bring the guillotine back," LePage told WVOM-FM. "We could have public executions and we could even have which hole it falls in."
While the Tea Party-backed Republican governor said the death penalty would be "appropriate for people who kill Mainers," the state actually abolished capital punishment in 1887 — making his suggestion moot.
LePage found himself in the national spotlight earlier this month when he claimed out-of-state drug dealers were coming to Maine to sell heroin and impregnate "white girls."
He said in a subsequent news conference that his use of "white girls" was a slip of the tongue, and blamed the media for blowing his words out of proportion.
Some Maine Democrats have been pushing for LePage's impeachment following the uproar, claiming he has engaged in an abuse of power as governor.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...calls-use-guillotine-drug-traffickers-n504636
While the Tea Party-backed Republican governor said the death penalty would be "appropriate for people who kill Mainers," the state actually abolished capital punishment in 1887 — making his suggestion moot.
LePage found himself in the national spotlight earlier this month when he claimed out-of-state drug dealers were coming to Maine to sell heroin and impregnate "white girls."
He said in a subsequent news conference that his use of "white girls" was a slip of the tongue, and blamed the media for blowing his words out of proportion.
Some Maine Democrats have been pushing for LePage's impeachment following the uproar, claiming he has engaged in an abuse of power as governor.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...calls-use-guillotine-drug-traffickers-n504636
