04-18-2015, 12:06 PM
The Death Penalty...It's a Gas
Oklahoma governor Mary Falin just signed a bill into law allowing the gas chamber to be used to kill death row inmates with nitrogen.
The method, which involves pumping a chamber full of nitrogen and leaving a prisoner's body to die from lack of oxygen, has been touted as 'foolproof' by supporters, in the wake of the embarrassingly botched lethal injections. It also requires no medical expertise or staffing.
If European pharmacies thought they could push America towards making the death penalty a thing of the past by cutting off the drug cocktail supply several years back, they were wrong -- we're actually going back to the past in order to keep killing prisoners.
So, here's the current execution preferences in the state of Oklahoma:
1. Lethal Injection
2. Gas Chamber
3. Electric Chair
4. Firing Squad
Oklahoma governor Mary Falin just signed a bill into law allowing the gas chamber to be used to kill death row inmates with nitrogen.
The method, which involves pumping a chamber full of nitrogen and leaving a prisoner's body to die from lack of oxygen, has been touted as 'foolproof' by supporters, in the wake of the embarrassingly botched lethal injections. It also requires no medical expertise or staffing.
If European pharmacies thought they could push America towards making the death penalty a thing of the past by cutting off the drug cocktail supply several years back, they were wrong -- we're actually going back to the past in order to keep killing prisoners.
So, here's the current execution preferences in the state of Oklahoma:
1. Lethal Injection
2. Gas Chamber
3. Electric Chair
4. Firing Squad