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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 HiThere on Friday March 16 2018, @05:51AM (2 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 16 2018, @05:51AM (#653402) Journal

    Well, that's reasonable if you can make certain to hit where you intend. And the guillotine was also quick and (nearly) painless. For that matter, ODing on heroin is also supposed to be painless...at least according the the people who didn't quite OD. And apparently its not difficult to get fentanyl on the grey market...and according to the news overdosing to death is so easy that it's hard to avoid.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @10:58AM

    Put the barrel to their forehead and it's pretty difficult to miss.

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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 18 2018, @01:28AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday March 18 2018, @01:28AM (#654302) Homepage Journal

    They're talking about using fentanyl for the executions, that's great. And we can talk about executing the fentanyl dealers. In Singapore they hang the drug dealers. No opioid crisis in Singapore!