Posted on 04/09/2015 10:33:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Oklahoma is poised to become the first state in the nation to allow the use of nitrogen gas to execute inmates under a plan given final legislative approval on Thursday and now headed to the governor’s desk.
Without a single dissenting vote, the Oklahoma Senate approved legislation that would allow the new method to be used if lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if the deadly drugs become unavailable. Republican Gov. Mary Fallin is a staunch supporter of the death penalty, but her spokesman declined to comment on the measure Thursday.
Executions are on hold in Oklahoma while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether the state’s current three-drug method of lethal injection is constitutional. Oklahoma and other states have scrambled to find new drugs after manufacturers of more effective drugs stopped selling them to states for executions.
There are no reports of nitrogen gas ever being used to execute humans. But supporters of Oklahoma’s plan argue that nitrogen-induced hypoxia—or a lack of oxygen in the blood—is a humane and painless method of execution that requires no medical expertise to perform. …
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Nitrogen gas to kill somebody?
That’s kind of cold.
I guess a rope is just not high tech enough anymore?
Back in ‘77 Gary Gilmore flat out said “shoot me” because he didn’t want to go through all the other crap.
That’s all they need to do.
Dropping the convicted murderer into liquid nitrogen would be cold... but effective.
LOL. Foolproof. I'm guessing this guy hasn't met too many prison officials.
Well...OK...
I say take them to the local animal shelter and use whatever method they are using to put down the strays humanly on these murderers. If it’s good enough for stray pets, it’s good enough for this scum.
Necessary as the major pharma firms all now refuse to sell lethal injection drugs, under pressure from the EU. And the compounding pharmacists who were providing them now likely fear the legal gauntlet.
‘The Executioner’s Song.’ Chilling portrayal by Tommy Lee Jones. TV Movie, 1982. Not that we should shed one tear for the POS, but Tommy Lee did a great job in that role.
Maybe turn it into a mixer of nitrogen and helium so he can sound funny as talks himself to sleep!
Foolproof. Lol.
At one time in this country, voting was foolproof. We’ve added a hell of a lot more fools to the mix and proved that wrong some time ago.
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There will never be a shortage of nitrogen...
I prefer they use helium.
I want to hear them make their final statement in a high squeaky voice!
A simple public hanging would be sufficient. As usual the mob and its ignorant “leadership” have overly complicated simple justice turning it into an emotional high drama complete with a rending of garments and scratching of the face.
Of course, you’d have the left suddenly digging up the “fundamentalist Christian” aspect of a hanging, since the Bible says that whomever is hanged is cursed by God (Deuteronomy 21:23 and Galatians 3:13).
“I want to hear them make their final statement in a high squeaky voice!”
And then float away into the stratosphere.
There will not be any talking. I’ve seen how fast it knocks a person out. I watched a firefighter pass out and crumple while breathing the stuff from a tested breathing air tank that was left charged with it.
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