Proposal from Oklahoma: Could Nitrogen Asphyxiation Replace Lethal Injection?

[unhappycamper]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/us-representative-wants-to-replace-lethal-injection-with-nitrogen-a-991651.html



There have been several botched executions by lethal injection this year, turning many Americans against the death penalty. Now an Oklahoma politician wants to put death-row convicts to death using a new method: nitrogen asphyxiation.

Proposal from Oklahoma: Could Nitrogen Asphyxiation Replace Lethal Injection?
By Markus Feldenkirchen in Oklahoma City
September 15, 2014 – 12:24 PM

Following a series of botched executions in the US, one lawmaker in the state of Oklahoma is now trying to gather support behind a new form of capital punishment. Mike Christian, a Republican in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, would like to see nitrogen asphyxiation introduced as a method to execute death row inmates. Nitrogen and noble gases such as helium are seen by proponents of assisted suicide as offering a reliable, quick and painless way to die.

Christian plans to introduce his proposal this week at a House hearing on the future of the death penalty. By December, Christian told SPIEGEL, he hopes to be able to present a draft law. Should it receive the requisite support, nitrogen asphyxiation could replace lethal injection as the primary execution method used sometime next year.

"It's the most humane way to die. You just sit there and a few minutes later, you're dead." Christian says. "I think it will definitely meet the standards (set) by the United States Supreme Court that it is definitely not cruel and inhumane."

For nitrogen asphyxiation executions, convicts would be placed in an airtight chamber or under a large plastic sack. The introduction of nitrogen, and the absence of oxygen, leads to a rapid loss of consciousness and, ultimately, to death. The method has never been used for capital punishment cases in the US. And there is disagreement as to whether it is as painless as Christian suggests, with some reports claiming that it is an agonizing way to die.

[safeinOhio]

1. Nitrous oxide

would be my choice.

[NaturalHigh]

3. Mmmmm...

That's the only way I'll see the dentist.

[Hoppy]

2. "It's the most humane way to die. You just sit there and a few minutes later, you're dead."

I think he should try it out first.

Read the entire article. What a sick fuck.

[drray23]

4. just like gas chambers...

Where the heck do they get those politicians ?