Montana lawmaker – Prisoners try HIV-tipped darts as murder weapons

Really? Really?

Paper blow darts tipped with HIV-infected saliva or blood can kill?

Well, no. Not really. Despite what Republican Rep. Janna Taylor, of Dayton in Lake County, said in a hearing on a bill to repeal the death penalty this week.

“There’s new ways to kill. You know, if a prisoner is HIV-positive, they make little weapons out of pieces of paper. They take their blood, their saliva and do blow darts on the guards. There are new and unique ways to kill,” she said.

The only “really” thing about the story is that’s really what she said.

(Read the Missoulian story here.)

Gwen Florio