Old Sparky not good enough?
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| Oklahoma to use nitrogen gas for executions |
| 2018-03-16 |
| Oklahoma plans to use nitrogen gas as its preferred method of execution when it resumes using the death penalty, the first US state to do so. The announcement was made by State Attorney General Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh. Capital punishment has been on hold in Oklahoma for three years amid problems with the lethal injection method. Mr Hunter told a news conference on Wednesday that nitrogen was easy to obtain and led to a painless death. Authorities will work together over the coming months to develop new protocols, the two men added. It is not clear exactly how soon executions will resume. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #21 I can remember being ‘overserved’ Nitrous and not caring. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-16 20:17 |
| #20 Heroin mega-dose... Seems to me that the cheapest method would be to recycle seized drug shipments, after testing for purity. Inject them with fentanyl or carfentanyl, while stashing a 1000-year supply of execution drugs, instead of destroying them. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-03-16 20:08 |
| #19 Nitrogen sounds good. There is plenty of it and it is carbon free. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-03-16 20:02 |
| #18 What if it is solar powered? High noon does have a certain cachet? :-) |
| Posted by: Alistaire Gloluns2996 2018-03-16 17:01 |
| #17 Old Sparky not good enough? Not 'Green' enough. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-03-16 16:56 |
| #16 killing them the way they killed others Precisely. Years ago in Pittsburgh, a couple gangbangers were shooting it out. A little kid in the back seat of a car at a gas station was killed by a stray bullet. 1) Not premeditated, so death penalty not even in play. Stupid. 2) The way to handle that incident (in my mind) would be to bring the shooter back to the scene of the crime, handcuff him to a street sign, bring every gangbanger from every lockup and jail around, say "You know why we are all here," and then shoot him in the head. I'm betting there'd be some deterrent value in that. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-03-16 15:23 |
| #15 I have no issue with killing them the way they killed others, I was just discussing what would be acceptable by the masses and what would not. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-16 15:10 |
| #14 a peaceful death More than one relative of a murder victim has commented after witnessing a lethal injection that the condemned "just went to sleep," "got of easy," etcetera. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-03-16 14:58 |
| #13 Old Sparky not good enough? It's not allowable to make an example of a condemned person any more. It's death that's the punishment, not the dying. A real philosopher's knot for sure. "Let the punishment fit the crime" is just too old school to fly nowadays... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-03-16 14:53 |
| #12 Old Sparky not good enough? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-03-16 14:34 |
| #11 I could be wrong but I think nitrogen or helium would be a peaceful death. It would displace the oxygen and you'd breathe it as if it were air so your body wouldn't freak out until your heart stopped. That's why factories that deal with the two gases treat them as so deadly. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-16 14:34 |
| #10 That's why we call it recycling. Involuntary organ donation. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-03-16 13:03 |
| #9 Heroin mega-dose... The list goes on and on, but again the problem is that if you are opposed to the Death Penalty per se there is no method that will satisfy you. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-03-16 12:49 |
| #8 Gallows humor aside, the same hypocrisy that applies to objections involving lethal injection will still be present. Nobody on the left ever complains about any of the mixtures involved in "death with dignity" euthanasia. I'm unaware of any of the drug manufacturers making ostentatious press statements that they don't want their products used for euthanasia. Likewise some idiot in Australia is offering a three-D printed euthanasia machine that uses nitrogen. The press is giddy about it. Watch them turn on a dime now that it might be used for execution. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-03-16 11:52 |
| #7 Tide Pods to show the kids the negative effects. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-16 11:14 |
| #6 What's the objection to the guillotine? There's always a pit of starving dogs, too. Sky diving with a faulty parachute would work also. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-03-16 09:54 |
| #5 Cheaper to use those plastic clothes bags with the warning to keep out of the hands of children. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-16 09:07 |
| #4 Personally, I believe the public Gibbet should be restored. Kind of a visual deterrence. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-03-16 08:15 |
| #3 Sounds dreadfully complex. Anyone consider a Model-94 ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-16 02:20 |
| #2 If you want helium then trap guns should also be involved. |
| Posted by: Classer 2018-03-16 02:16 |
| #1 Finally! Hell, why not use Helium so everyone gets a laugh out of it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-03-16 02:05 |