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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, @07:13AM (15 children)
Do you volunteer to do it, then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @08:29AM (3 children)
If you wouldn't, what is wrong with you? Eh, perhaps you are excused if female.
The guys in Saudi Arabia who chop off heads with swords are proud of their work.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday March 16 2018, @08:48AM (2 children)
If you admire them, maybe immigrate there? If nothing else, it'll bring you closer to your role models.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)
emigrate
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @11:44PM
emirate
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @11:04AM (10 children)
No. I'm a capitalist. I need to be paid to do work. At least enough to cover gas, ammo, dry cleaning or a raincoat, and however many hours of my time are taken up. If you want it done for free, fine, but you'll need to bring the gun, ammo, and criminal to my house then wait for me to take a smoke break from whatever I'm doing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @12:07PM (1 child)
Capitalists belong in the GULAG, just saying.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @12:53PM
Sigh, you make me briefly wish we had a -1 Boring mod.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 16 2018, @01:20PM (7 children)
So you are saying: if you are paid, you'd have no qualms in acting as an executioner, it would be just like any other job for you.
Is that right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 16 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
I'm surprised he even wants paid, frankly...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:24AM
I don't have any personal desire to execute anyone. I simply have the willingness to put my money where my mouth is. Anyone who believes in the death penalty should be willing to carry it out themselves or they have no business taking part in discussions on the matter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)
It's a filthy job, like cleaning out restrooms or washing dogs. It's irregular work. If you use a gun, it's as noisy as stamping auto body parts.
On the other hand, it is a feel-good job. It's sort of like voting or serving on a jury or picking up road debris or serving in the military or helping an accident victim. It would be sort of patriotic, honorable, and so on. I'd feel that I was doing my duty, serving my country or community.
I suspect it could get frustrating, because you'd be bound by silly rules. There would be people who ought to be slowly killed in a painful and demeaning manner, but probably that would be forbidden. I think, if I could get a chance with the guys who burned 3 women to death in their home in Connecticut, I'd bend the rules at least a little.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:19AM
I wouldn't. Nobody would be better off for giving them what they deserve. Just end them so they're unable to ever cause harm again and be done with it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:21AM
So long as every reasonable effort was made to verify their guilt, no, I would have not qualm one. Some people the world would just be better off without and if I'm willing to allow myself to believe that, I should have the courage of my convictions and be willing to carry it out myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)
For the record - sometimes dirty jobs have to be done. The toilet backs up, you get the plunger out, or pay a plumber. Dude needs to be killed, you kill him, or hire someone who will. If you're to good to do a dirty job, you'll pay. It's really that simple.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:38PM
Are you trying to address something in what I asked? Because, if so, I don't get exactly what.
Context:
1. I only asked TMB a direct personal question, the "could you act as an executioner?" one, no moral or other value judgement implied or expressed.
2. I disagree with the equivalence of "Death penalty is as inevitable as a toilet backing up" - many countries don't use the death penalty, as such the "executioner job" is not "a dirty job that needs to be done" by someone in that country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford