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Utah plans to bring back firing squads, but Oklahoma wants to try asphyxiating inmates with nitrogen
Washington Post ^ | March 17, 2015 | Jeff Guo

Posted on 03/17/2015 7:18:35 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

As it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, several states have sought to resurrect bygone ways of killing death-row inmates.

In Utah, which outlawed death by firing squad in 2004, lawmakers voted last week to reinstate that execution method should the state run out of drugs for lethal injection. Tennessee chose the electric chair last year as its own backup method. Last week, the Alabama House passed a bill that would do the same. Similar measures in Virginia, Missouri, and Wyoming failed last year.

But in Oklahoma, a bill is advancing that would introduce an entirely new and untested method of execution: death by nitrogen inhalation.

“It’s probably the best thing we’ve come up with since the start of executing people by government,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Christian (R) told the Oklahoman.

How would such an execution work?

Nitrogen gas itself is odorless and nontoxic, and makes up 78 percent of the atmosphere. It only becomes lethal when someone breathes it in at high concentrations, and only then because that person is therefore not getting enough oxygen.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: executions
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1 posted on 03/17/2015 7:18:35 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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Wouldn’t Nitrogen asphyxiation be similar to drinking oneself to death?


2 posted on 03/17/2015 7:21:13 AM PDT by skeeter
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Let's just follow Ohio's lead on this.

Ohio Replaces Lethal Injection With Humane New Head-Ripping-Off Machine

3 posted on 03/17/2015 7:22:38 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Second Amendment First

while this is not relevant to the topic...I must state that I read the headline as Obama...>wanting< to try asphyxiating inmates with nitrogen...

which is cheaper, asphyxiation or bullets?


4 posted on 03/17/2015 7:22:50 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Second Amendment First

Perhaps Jihad John would hire out on the cheap. Bring back the beheading.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 7:23:37 AM PDT by wita
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To: Second Amendment First
In Utah, which outlawed death by firing squad in 2004, lawmakers voted last week to reinstate that execution method should the state run out of drugs for lethal injection. Tennessee chose the electric chair last year as its own backup method. Last week, the Alabama House passed a bill that would do the same. Similar measures in Virginia, Missouri, and Wyoming failed last year. But in Oklahoma, a bill is advancing that would introduce an entirely new and untested method of execution: death by nitrogen inhalation.

There's an even cheaper method, but people don't like to consider it:


6 posted on 03/17/2015 7:26:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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7 posted on 03/17/2015 7:28:14 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: skeeter

How about the 10000 ft drop out of an airplane. The ride down is probably fun and it is only the sudden stop that kills.


8 posted on 03/17/2015 7:28:51 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Drew68

Your one sick puppy! LOVE IT!! LOL!


9 posted on 03/17/2015 7:29:28 AM PDT by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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To: Second Amendment First

Death by Nitrogen would be a lot less bloody.


10 posted on 03/17/2015 7:33:58 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Second Amendment First

I say will kill them exactly the way they killed their victim.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 7:34:17 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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I have a perfect way to put these monsters away. In the OLD SOVIET UNION, whenever a criminal is given a death sentence, they never tell the PERP when it will be. What the prison guards do, is create a noise outside the PERP’S cell. When the “PERP” looks through the peep hole to see what the noise is about, one of the guards shoots through the peep hole. Oh, by the way, the relatives of the PERP is charged for the bullet.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 7:36:01 AM PDT by gingerbread
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To: Second Amendment First

The guillotine was quick and efficient.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 7:42:36 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Drew68

OK. That was very disturbing.


14 posted on 03/17/2015 7:44:27 AM PDT by Mercat (forgive all your DeeDees)
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To: MeshugeMikey

My problem with Utah using firing squads is that there is a 100% chance Bloomberg would count it as “gun violence”.


15 posted on 03/17/2015 7:45:31 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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gun violence is sometimes necessary....


16 posted on 03/17/2015 7:46:22 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Second Amendment First

Judge Parker had a system that worked at Fort Smith.


17 posted on 03/17/2015 8:03:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MeshugeMikey; Second Amendment First
which is cheaper, asphyxiation or bullets?

The gas is cheap.

Because it is viewed as a quick and probably painless way to die, death by hypoxia has become popular among people seeking to commit suicide. The procedure typically involves what is called an exit bag—a plastic tent wrapped around the head that is filled with an inert gas like nitrogen or helium. (The method is similar to what has been discussed in Oklahoma.)

I can’t imagine anything much cheaper than the method described above. And the bag would be reusable.

But knowing the love of politicians to spend money you can bet that this simple cheap process would become unnecessarily complicated with a chamber that would contain the entire body of the condemned prisoner and an automated delivery system for the gas. similar to what the gas chamber was in the 1940s.

Simple and cheap just doesn’t do it for the political class.

18 posted on 03/17/2015 8:08:06 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: skeeter

Yeah, when divers get too much nitrogen in the mix, they get intoxicated and it is supposed to be very similar to the effects of alcohol.


19 posted on 03/17/2015 8:11:57 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Second Amendment First

Sounds good.


20 posted on 03/17/2015 8:12:38 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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