Oklahoma introduces nitrogen chamber to execute death row inmates

Oklahoma Looks To Use Nitrogen Chamber To Execute Death Row Inmates

6 million ways to die…

Via DailyMail

Oklahoma introduced a law allowing it to use nitrogen gas to kill death row prisoners if lethal injections aren’t available.

Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill approving nitrogen as an alternative method of death, giving Oklahoma four different ways to enact its death penalty.

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.

Executions in the state are currently on hold while the Supreme Court ponders whether the three-drug mix now favored by Oklahoma is constitutional.

The pause follows an infamous execution last ear, which saw officials struggle to administer a the poison to an inmate, who writhed on the gurney in pain for some 43 minutes before finally dying.

Nitrogen – which has never been used to execute humans before – is now the state’s second choice.

Kinda hard to stay that something is “foolproof” when it’s never been used to execute humans before.

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