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Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution
schwit1 writes Yesterday, Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill that approves the use of nitrogen gas for executions in the state. The method, which would effectively asphyxiate death row inmates by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen through a gas mask, is meant to be the primary alternative to lethal injection, the Washington Post reports.
Fallin and other supporters of the procedure say it's pain-free and effective, noting that the nitrogen would render inmates unconscious within ten seconds and kill them in minutes. It's also cheap: state representatives say the method only requires a nitrogen tank and a gas mask, but financial analysts say its impossible to give precise figures, the Post reports.
Oklahoma's primary execution method is still lethal injection, but the state's procedure is currently under review by the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Tennessee suspended executions statewide following challenges to its own lethal injection protocol.
Fallin and other supporters of the procedure say it's pain-free and effective, noting that the nitrogen would render inmates unconscious within ten seconds and kill them in minutes. It's also cheap: state representatives say the method only requires a nitrogen tank and a gas mask, but financial analysts say its impossible to give precise figures, the Post reports.
Oklahoma's primary execution method is still lethal injection, but the state's procedure is currently under review by the Supreme Court. Earlier this week, Tennessee suspended executions statewide following challenges to its own lethal injection protocol.
That's why we have a legal system with appeals you twit. Does anyone doubt that the Tsarneavs were responsible for killing and maiming dozens? Timothy Mcveigh?
The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong.
That is funny because I have been personally held responsible for all these:
I am supposedly guilty of all these because somebody guilty is possibly is related to me (probably a dozen or so steps removed because I don't know anybody in my immediate family guilty of any of that). I am supposed to feel guilty about that - and if not I am evil, evil, evil and deserve to die (yes, the very same people who are against the death penalty often call for a lynching if they run out of arguments - and they do so proudly).
Then, when I switch on the TV, I see some murderer's mother crying "My boy didn't do no wrong" - why isn't she supposed to feel guilty? How is it that normal, law-abiding people are guilty for things that happened centuries before their birth while "The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong."? How so? Why this double-standard?
Any rational person has to admit that (in most cases) of course the condemned prisoner's family did a lot wrong, they raised him the way they did, they likely watched him go deeper and deeper into crime and quite often they also covered for him and obstructed justice. And in any case they are a lot closer to a criminal than I am.
Why is every criminal innocent until proven guilty while every law-abiding person is guilty without any chance of appeal?