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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: 4, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday March 16 2018, @09:32AM (2 children)

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday March 16 2018, @09:32AM (#653467) Journal

    And since nitrogen already composes nearly 80% of the air we breath

    AAAAAAHHHHH! You mean we are all breathing execution gas all the time? EVERYBODY PANIC! BAN NITROGEN! AAAAHHHH!

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 16 2018, @01:18PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday March 16 2018, @01:18PM (#653573) Journal

    I've got my towel...you got yours?

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 16 2018, @06:19PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday March 16 2018, @06:19PM (#653722)

      I'm taking my chances with the Nitrogen: I've felt the damage humans can do with poetry.