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http://m.newsok.com/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-allowing-nitrogen-hypoxia-as-alternate-execution-method/article/5398058

(On my cell, so no copy of the text. If someone else wants to copy and paste please feel free).

It still has to pass the senate, but I do wish the bill would have just made it the primary option and done away with lethal injection (of note: OK does have the chair as the current backup).

I am well known to be anti-death penalty, but I know oklahoma won't get rid of it. So I hope we could at least make it as humane as possible, and I think this would be a good step.

Bullet to the head seems the most cost-effective way.

Just make sure it isn't M855.

Id figure the tried and true noose would be quicker but i think if i had to go id prefer this than injections.

Nitrogen (or even Helium) overdose is a "humane" way to go, as you'd simply go to sleep.

I'd still say life in prison is better alternative.

So it is the equivalent of letting someone sit in their running car in a closed garage... But instead of CO2, you have another gas displacing Oxygen so they slowly suffocate.

Why don't they just hold a pillow over the person's face if they want to suffocate people?

I dunno... Until they can resolve the false conviction issues, I would like to see it all go away.

Same here. But as long we keep doing executions, might as well be humane. It's the only thing that keeps us above those who murder.

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Exactly. Are we as low as them?

White PJs seem like a really poor choice for such activities.

Interesting form of execution. If it were Helium it'd make their last words fairly entertaining. Lol

It's only humane if the implementation and delivery isn't botched.

May as well go with a noose, bullet or the axe mans block. All are humane.

All keep the brain alive post-execution with potential for awareness of the pain, even if there were no problems during the execution.

LOL, nothing says "humane" like a "gas chamber" says humane. bullet to the head? Hanging? why not just bring back the guillotine?

For humanities sake, let's do away with the death penalty all together. far to many innocent people have needlessly died because of it.

I think the most humane way to do it, if you must do it, is a shot in the head point blank with a high caliber. If you don't have the stomach for that, then maybe you shouldn't be executing people.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Interesting form of execution. If it were Helium it'd make their last words fairly entertaining. Lol

On the other hand this is quite compelling.

"Any last *giggle* words *giggle*"

I'm sure the death penalty opponents will find a way to make this cost prohibitive.

Horray! Things might be slightly less barbaric then they currently are in about the most limited and fleeting way possible.

Party time.

I'm surprised that America has not done away with big government intrusion into the death penalty and put that puppy into the hands of the free market. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would put money in politicians pockets for the rights to execute people for profit.

Bring on the thunderdome!

Isn't that in the constitution or something?

 Ouze wrote:
I think the most humane way to do it, if you must do it, is a shot in the head point blank with a high caliber. If you don't have the stomach for that, then maybe you shouldn't be executing people.

I agree. Give them a mild sedative and then blow apart the nervous system. Zero chance of failure to kill, especially if you use multiple rounds in rapid succession.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I'm surprised that America has not done away with big government intrusion into the death penalty and put that puppy into the hands of the free market. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would put money in politicians pockets for the rights to execute people for profit.

Bring on the thunderdome!

Isn't that in the constitution or something?

Id watch me some death race.

Wasn't there some silly movie where kids get to mind control inmates into playing IRL COD?

Nitrogen hypoxia is better than CO2 as the brain doesnt realise the effect. With Nitrogen hypoxia you go into a state of euphoria and then pass out and die. With CO2 you get the ame but it is stressful.

Animals are CO2 stunned in many slaughterhouses and it results in about 15 seconds of stress.

It is believed that nitrogen hypoxia is not practiced in some states because it is stress free. I have heard compelling rumours that executions are regularly botched or drawn out as a means of providing extra punishment. Allowing for the sheer volume of botched executions especially with lethal injection methods I find this easy to believe.

You can kill someone instantly and guaranteed with hydrogen cyanide, and numerous other toxins so why should a lethal injection take half an hour of pain to kill. It sounds deliberate to me.

Making nitrogen hypoxia the only valid method of execution nationwide would be a good step, then individual states could decide whether or not to apply the death penalty within that restriction.

The only trouble with nitrogen hypoxia is that you cant really DIY, it would be the perfect method of voluntary euthenasia in those countries that apply it. The current method involves drinking a poison which has a bitter aftertaste and is normally accompanied by a strong cup of chocolate syrup to counter.

I've said it countless times before - death by explosion. You want to guarantee a painfree death then you ensure they'll be dead in fraction of a second with ludicrous ultra-violence.

But when we say 'humane' we actually mean 'no blood', and so we keep searching for something that will kill them with no external signs of violence. It's very weird.

 whembly wrote:
Nitrogen (or even Helium) overdose is a "humane" way to go, as you'd simply go to sleep.

I'd still say life in prison is better alternative.

Conditions in US prisons being what they are, life in prison without the possibility of parole strikes me as incredibly more cruel than a humane execution.

 sebster wrote:
I've said it countless times before - death by explosion. You want to guarantee a painfree death then you ensure they'll be dead in fraction of a second with ludicrous ultra-violence.

I'd die to this.

We could have "explosion-chambers".

How rad would that be? Explosion-chambers.

How hard can it be to kill painlessly? All you do is give a general anaesthetic as people routinely do in hospital every day. Then finish them off when they're out of it. Orlanth is right, how can these executions be botched so that people take half hour to die from a 'lethal' injection?

 sebster wrote:
I've said it countless times before - death by explosion. You want to guarantee a painfree death then you ensure they'll be dead in fraction of a second with ludicrous ultra-violence.

But when we say 'humane' we actually mean 'no blood', and so we keep searching for something that will kill them with no external signs of violence. It's very weird.

Your concern for those having to mop it up is touching...

 BlaxicanX wrote:

 sebster wrote:
I've said it countless times before - death by explosion. You want to guarantee a painfree death then you ensure they'll be dead in fraction of a second with ludicrous ultra-violence.

I'd die to this.

We could have "explosion-chambers".

How rad would that be? Explosion-chambers.

I may be a terrible person, because I laughed pretty hard at this

Bishop F Gantry wrote:

 sebster wrote:
I've said it countless times before - death by explosion. You want to guarantee a painfree death then you ensure they'll be dead in fraction of a second with ludicrous ultra-violence.

But when we say 'humane' we actually mean 'no blood', and so we keep searching for something that will kill them with no external signs of violence. It's very weird.

Your concern for those having to mop it up is touching...

Do it right and you collapse ythe chamber on the exploded person. That way you create jobs building new explosion chambers each time you execute someone. Of course you cut down on jobs in the casket, burial etc sector, but I think the concrete and construction lobby have more money for buying politicians and so will win out in this one...

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
How hard can it be to kill painlessly? All you do is give a general anaesthetic as people routinely do in hospital every day. Then finish them off when they're out of it. Orlanth is right, how can these executions be botched so that people take half hour to die from a 'lethal' injection?

A lot of the issue with lethal injection is that drug companies do not want their stuff to be known as the "lethal injection drug" and most of them have stopped supplying it. Which is why states are having to go back to alternative methods of execution. I believe Utah is attempting to bring back the Firing Squad.

Of all the methods, firing squad is probably one of the worst. It's not a quick process, and some people even survive.

Maybe firing squad duty could be like jury duty - if you have a gun you get put in the rotation for execution duty.