All Hail Oklahoma: Considering ‘efficient’ gas chambers for executions

Oklahoma lawmakers are pushing for the state to become the first in the nation to allow the use of nitrogen gas for the execution of death row prisoners.

All Hail Oklahoma: Considering ‘efficient’ gas chambers for executions Oklahoma-considering-gas-chambers.si

All Hail Oklahoma: Considering ‘efficient’ gas chambers for executions Oklahoma-considering-gas-chambers.si

Oklahoma state House Republican lawmakers will hold a hearing on Wednesday over a bill to make death by “nitrogen hypoxia” a back-up method of execution. The state’s lethal injection formula is currently under review by the Supreme Court, which will determine whether it violates the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

Under current law in Oklahoma – where lethal injection has been used since 1990 – if that method were to be found to be unconstitutional, the state would use the electric chair. A firing squad would be the third option. The new bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Christian, said he wants to eliminate electrocution as a back-up method in order to replace it with the gas chamber.

"You wouldn't need a medical doctor to do it. It's a lot more practical. It's efficient," Rep. Mike Christian, an Oklahoma City Republican, told the Associated Press.

Christian said that unlike traditional gas chambers that used drugs like cyanide, which cause a build-up of carbon dioxide in the blood, breathing nitrogen would be painless because it leads to hypoxia – a gradual lack of oxygen in the blood, similar to what can happen to pilots at high altitudes.

http://rt.com/usa/230775-oklahoma-gas-chambers-executions/

All Hail Oklahoma: Considering ‘efficient’ gas chambers for executions

All Hail Oklahoma: Considering ‘efficient’ gas chambers for executions

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