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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: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 16 2018, @05:31AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 16 2018, @05:31AM (#653395) Journal

    So you're telling me they need high powered expensive lawyers too, sure I guess you could try to squeeze some money out of a dead man (even though somebody is ultimately paying for it).

    Most of them would receive judicial assistance on a pro-bono basis - many big law firms take such cases.
    This doesn't mean that the adversarial party argues pro-bono as well - on the contrary, because the stakes are high. And neither the judges.
    And, oh man, if the verdict is over-turned, those pro-bono lawyer will take the skin and some more from the prosecution (in a different case) - rightly so if the individual was wrongly convicted.

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