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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: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 16 2018, @03:14AM (16 children)
You volunteer, I understand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @03:27AM (4 children)
I suppose, if convenient to me, I'd do a few for free. I think most normal males would be willing.
If I have to make a career out of it, moving my family and showing up every day bright and early, I'll be needing some decent pay. I'm sure there are cheaper people.
But yes, basically.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday March 16 2018, @09:44AM
Well it seems I'm in the not-normal category, then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday March 16 2018, @09:48AM (2 children)
Also interesting that you seem to think that men are up to the task, but women aren't.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 16 2018, @07:22PM
Most teen boys would do it in a blink. Just make a remote-control robot and turn it into a game, where they go around shooting virtual bad guys in a labyrinth, but one (or more) of the bad guys is the condemned.
Patent pending.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @07:56PM
55% of the males
20% of the females
This assumes knowing what the crime was, but not being personally involved. Personal involvement could make that 95% and 50%. Being unaware of the crime would drop it to 10% and 5%.
This also assumes a male perpetrator, which is usual. Change that, and the willing men will drop dramatically.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @04:18AM (10 children)
I dunno about you but I'd have no problem putting two in the chest and one in the head of anyone who deserved it. There are absolutely lines for me that crossing means you cease to be a human being and become nothing but an animal that needs to be put down. I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it either.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ilPapa on Friday March 16 2018, @05:00AM (5 children)
One of those lines is the willingness to put "two in the chest and one in the head" of someone.
I'll bet you would have been willing to "pull the switch" on the Central Park Five after that woman was raped and beaten. You would have killed five innocent men. There have been well over a thousand cases of innocent people being killed by the State. If you believe in limited government, there's no way you can support allowing the State to have the power to kill citizens.
Capital punishment, like torture, diminishes everyone.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Friday March 16 2018, @07:08AM (1 child)
1. They weren't innocent, they just didn't put their dick in the victim. They WERE part of a wild gang of around thirty who were running amok and harmed many other people. The testimony of the asshole who said he did it alone was oh so convenient to the prog narrative since he was already doing a life sentence.
2. Because the DNA didn't match none of them were even sentenced to life and certainly none received a death sentence. Meaning the case isn't even something you should have brought up here.
3. Just because the Communist, anti-crime control mayor handed the perps a huge sack of cash and the key to the city does not mean they aren't criminal scum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @09:55AM
Yes they were. Perhaps you are confusing their skin color for their guilt?
Actually, a certain individual, who is now President of the United States, called for them to be put to death.
Hmm ... see the last sentence of #1.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @10:41AM (2 children)
On the contrary, protecting its citizens rights is the primary purpose of government, so dealing with those who would infringe one of the most important rights, life, is absolutely within their mandate no matter how limited you wish them to be.
As for them making mistakes, they're only human and that's always going to happen. By all means, do your due diligence. Be as thorough as realistically possible in death penalty cases. If you allow yourself to be paralyzed by the possibility of making a mistake though, you'll never be able to do anything at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ilPapa on Friday March 16 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)
And by killing a non-zero number of innocent people, THAT is how a government protects their rights?
Seriously, what percentage of the total number of people killed via capital punishment being innocent would you find acceptable?
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:06AM
Percentage is irrelevant. If you've done the best you reasonably can to assure you have the correct scumbag, nobody can ask more of you without being a disingenuous shithead.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday March 16 2018, @12:58PM (1 child)
A lot of basic training in any armed force is due to the fact that most humans are unwilling to kill another human. This behaviour has strong evolutionary roots (species that kill each other don't survive so well) and it takes a lot to overcome in most people. The exceptions are usually classed as sociopaths. It comes as no surprise at all to me that you would be in this category.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:07AM
Check the ADHD story again. We in fact have stronger emotions than average people. Part of being an adult is not being a slave to your emotions though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Kalas on Friday March 16 2018, @08:57PM (1 child)
Goddamn. You might as well buy a neon sign the size of the moon advertising "I AM A SOCIOPATH".
Makes me wonder if you've already crossed one of those lines yourself.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:11AM
I find it interesting that you lot think anyone whose emotions do not control their decision making is a sociopath. I suppose it goes hand in hand with you calling everyone who disagrees with you Nazis though. You either don't give a damn what words mean or you're mentally damaged enough that reality is not a worry of yours.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.