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posted by mrpg on Friday March 16 2018, @02:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the fundamental-states-of-matter dept.

Oklahoma plans to start carrying out executions with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used in the U.S. but that some states have already approved amid difficulties with lethal injections.

At a news conference Wednesday, Oklahoma Atty. Gen. Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe M. Allbaugh said that over the next few months the state would develop a protocol for using nitrogen.

[...] In recent years, Oklahoma and other states have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, the most common execution method but one that has increasingly faced scrutiny.

In 2015, a state court put a moratorium on executions in Oklahoma after a series of botched executions, including one in which an inmate convulsed for 43 minutes before dying and another in which the wrong drug was administered.

Oklahoma is poised to become the first state to use nitrogen gas in executions


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by KilroySmith on Friday March 16 2018, @02:32AM (4 children)

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Friday March 16 2018, @02:32AM (#653297)

    How about anti-aircraft guns? I've heard they're a popular method of execution in some of the more enlightened areas of the world...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:52AM (#653310)

    Suppose we let people pledge money to use an anti-aircraft gun. It's only about $27 for each M-940 20mm MPT-SD round.

    Add a markup to make it $42 and require a multiple of 100, so $4200 minimum. Don't you worry, nobody in the whole country would think of paying that much for such a purpose. :-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:52AM (#653311)

    man on earth, by luminousity.

    Although I've heard there is this orange guy who claims he glows the most better!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @02:58AM (#653314)
  • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @04:10AM

    Anything less than headbutting a chainsaw is just a tree-hugging hippie bullshit way to die.

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