2. A gun with two bullets
3. It's a Small, Small World pumped thru a hidden speaker
4. These pictures covering the walls
Posted on 11/29/2015 6:03:09 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
Why Oklahoma became the first state to approve nitrogen gas as a lethal injection alternative
In the weeks following the execution of Clayton Lockett, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose botched lethal injection triggered a statewide moratorium on executions, lawmakers there began rethinking their approach to capital punishment. Among the people they called on to help was Michael Copeland.
Copeland is a criminal justice professor at East Central University, a public school with about 6,000 students in Ada, Okla. From 2010 to 2013, he was the director of the anti-fraud unit at the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Before that, he was an assistant attorney general for the Republic of Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Copeland is not a doctor. He has no medical training. But what he does have is a close relationship with Oklahoma legislators, some of whom he’s known for years. And they often ask Copeland to conduct research and gather data that could help shape bills. He’s worked with legislators on reducing the number of uninsured motorists, for example, and helped draft guidelines for the transportation of the mentally ill who are a danger to themselves and others
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I’ve read and been told that a single breath of high concentration CO2 causes a person to lose consciousness immediately.
And their last words are hilarious.
And you end on a high note.
Of course they end up dead, but there is a long history of songs and stories written about those who were deemed worthy of the firing squad. There is a certain glory attached to being tied to a post, the squad lining up, the order given, the shots fired.
It’s as though the criminal died a heroic death, and none of us want that.
Not so much for those who were doomed to be hung from a rope.
Of course they end up dead, but there is a long history of songs and stories written about those who were deemed worthy of the firing squad. There is a certain glory attached to being tied to a post, the squad lining up, the order given, the shots fired.
It’s as though the criminal died a heroic death, and none of us want that.
Not so much for those who were doomed to be hung from a rope.
Opps, didn’t mean to double post.
And cheap.
Firing squad, hanging, guillotin, thrown off the Tarpeian Rock -- all of those work. That 60 Minutes smear job should result in everyone involved in the report doing prison time for inciting riots and mass hysteria.
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