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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @08:08AM (2 children)
The USA is not capable of keeping prisoners locked up for the rest of their lives if need be.
All it takes is one judge saying the prison is too crowded, and hoards of criminals are set free upon our streets. All it takes is one clueless/evil democratic governor/president saying "they look like nice boys", and out come the criminals.
Thus today, in the USA, having the death penalty is a practical necessity.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by pendorbound on Friday March 16 2018, @02:22PM
Cite one example in which a US judge has ordered that murderers be released from prison due to overcrowding.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @05:53PM
People such as the above are why we can't have nice things. They ate tough on everything except themselves, and it results in a shitty society.