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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
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 16 2018, @02:33AM
Here on land, helium is the most humane option. You can go to your local grocery store and go out in a blaze of glory inflicting barotrauma upon yourself. And die with a chipmunk voice. Reciting Hilter speeches is a lot funnier at 8x the speed.
Carbon monoxide works, sure, but that requires a setup. You have a garage, or a flexible tube to pipe it from your tailpipe into your carriage. And that's very messy and suspicious.