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Oklahoma is Poised to Become the First State to Use Nitrogen Gas in Executions

posted by mrpg on Friday March 16 2018, @02:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the fundamental-states-of-matter dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @07:25AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @07:25AM (#653432)

    Why would there be any appeal at all? You have just condemned a person to death as punishment. Do you think capital punishments are given willy-nilly?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday March 16 2018, @07:30AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 16 2018, @07:30AM (#653435) Journal

    In enough many case, yes.
    Doesn't happen in the universe you live in?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @08:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @08:04AM (#653447)

      No, teenagers, women and tourists all face the death equally if convicted of a serious crime with capital punishment, with no possibility of appeal even if it raises a diplomatic row.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 16 2018, @01:59PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 16 2018, @01:59PM (#653594) Journal

    Actually, Willy, yes. Sometimes they are. I'm with you, so far as your valid point goes. We waste an awful lot of time and effort on the appeals processes. It often seems there are to many appeals, and to many people have nothing better to do, than dream up new appeals. Sumbitch raped and butchered a little girl who hadn't even tasted puberty yet - he shouldn't be alive twenty years later. But - there really are proper appeals. And, sometimes, it is discovered that the cops got the wrong man. I've never bothered to try real hard figuring out how often they get the wrong man - but it does happen.

    We need appeals, because overzealous cops and prosecutors, if for no other reason.