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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: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Friday March 16 2018, @07:28AM (1 child)
Solve the endless appeals on bullcrap grounds by disbarring lawyers who file several of them. Lawfare works because there is no penalty. Discourage the convicts from filing by making them pay a price. Take the sentence and you get a nice quick execution. Delay it a year or more with frivolous appeals and lose and you get the messy exit. Quit once the average wait time is low and the average cost of getting to execution gets reasonable again.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @07:33AM
I wish you be convicted to 10 years in prison just-because without the ability to appeal.
Maybe this way you'll learn that cheap!=fair.