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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @03:25AM (2 children)
Heroin sounds pretty good to a lot of the inmates too. And we can't have that because they bad folks.
Some states are even doing away with last meal requests.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 16 2018, @01:39PM (1 child)
Don't do away with the last meal requests.
Simply do away with granting the requests.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @06:14PM
The last meal is a cultural tradition and a bit of decent treatment in the last hours of the life of a person, regardless of what crimes they committed.
Cap the dollar amount of the requested items, or even limit it to a menu of prison food service and commissary items if you must, but don't do away with the last meal.