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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: 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.