Oklahoma House passes bill to use nitrogen gas for executions

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Oklahoma House passes bill to use nitrogen gas for executions

BY HEIDE BRANDES
OKLAHOMA CITY Tue Mar 3, 2015 12:53pm EST

(Reuters) - The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday allowing nitrogen gas as a means of execution, a measure that comes after a troubled lethal injection last year raised questions about how the state executes inmates.

The bill, which passed by a vote of 85 to 10, authorizes nitrogen gas as an alternative form of execution if lethal injection is found to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The process, which would require an inmate to be in a sealed chamber or wear a special mask, would slowly replace oxygen with nitrogen, lawmakers said.

State Representative Mike Christian, a Republican who authored the bill, has said the process would be painless for inmates and affordable for Oklahoma.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/usa-oklahoma-execution-idUSKBN0LZ25820150303

[misterhighwasted]

1. Nazi Death Camps did this right?

They could just schedule one day a year for mass execution day.
Pay per view...too!
Sick

[longship]

2. They should adopt Ohio's new method.

The head ripping-off machine.

Trigger warning: graphic animation.
Nota bene: this is The Onion:

But well played by The Onion.

[misterhighwasted]

4. Oh good lord! lol (sort of)

Head ripping off machine
Oh my..

[Runningdawg]

3. Painless?

Wouldn't this be the same thing as dying from the bends? I have heard that is one of the most painful deaths possible. IF you are going to kill people, at least be honest about it, get your own hands dirty. Draw straws to see who triple taps, then post the executioners name and face like they do for ISIS.

[misterhighwasted]

5. That is the truth.

Painless? Who fed them that b.s.?

[Lancero]

9. Scientists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation

[Agschmid]

7. No.

To my knowledge that's caused by "air"/nitrogen in the blood...

This is more like a slow and horrible suffocation.

Death penalty needs to be put to death.

[Lancero]

10. Slow and horrible is carbon dioxide.

Some reading material for you.

http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/SB-Nitrogen-6-11-031.pdf

[hifiguy]

6. This country has become a vast, open air lunatic asylum

[misterhighwasted]

11. It really has. nt

[yuiyoshida]

8. Isn't this the same thing that happens to divers

Nitrogen narcosis- getting the bends.. isn't that supposed to be painful as hell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis

[Lancero]

12. One key aspect - At high pressure.

Gases react differently at differing pressures - Basic science.

All gases can be deadly given the right circumstances. Yes, even Oxygen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity