ME governor suggests bringing back guillotine

“I think the death penalty should be appropriate for people that kill Mainers”, LePage said during the interview.

Paul LePage said ME should bring back the guillotine to execute drug traffickers.

Paul LePage (R) suggested in a Tuesday interview with the station WVOM that his state should consider bringing back the guillotine, the mechanism invented during the French Revolution to quickly carry out executions through beheading. “We could have public executions and have, you know, we could even have (guessing) which hole it falls in”, says the governor.

He recently made national news when he commented on traffickers coming from CT and NY with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who “come up here, they sell their heroin and they go back home”.

But LePage has been noticed beyond Maine’s borders for his remarks on drugs.

Later in the news conference, LePage said, “If I slipped up and used the wrong word, I apologize to all the Maine women”. “We gotta keep them here [in jail] until they die”.

The Pine Tree State abolished the death penalty in 1887, yet LePage may view himself as a modern-day Robespierre. LePage appeared on the show following some recent legislative and executive actions to crack down on drugs in the state.

The Republican governor twice referred to his critics as the “socialists in Augusta”, taking a swipe at Democrats in the Legislature who were behind a failed attempt to launch an impeachment investigation over his alleged abuse of authority. Instead, he’s going to submit a letter in coming weeks. “It makes no sense”. I asked them to go to 20 years.

“As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying, ‘Gov”.

LePage will be holding a public town hall at Husson University in Bangor Tuesday night.

Nevertheless, LePage continued on with other ideas to tackle the state’s drug epidemic.