Oklahoma could soon execute inmates with nitrogen gas

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This is great news as a new PAINLESS way to get rid of awful killers! It's just nitrogen gas which is already 78% of the air we all breathe. It simply puts people to sleep without hurting law enforcement officials in close proximity. For those of you against or hesitant of the death penalty just think how you'd feel if some sick monster raped and killed your mom, sister, wife, or girlfriend? You'd be SCREAMING for it! Article below:


Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of death row inmates using nitrogen gas under a bill overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday by the House of Representatives.

The House voted 85-10 for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Mike Christian, who began studying alternative methods after a botched lethal injection in the spring that led the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of Oklahoma's current three-drug method.

Christian said numerous studies have been conducted on nitrogen hypoxia, which is similar to what pilots at high altitudes can encounter when oxygen supplies diminish. He described the method as humane, painless and easy to administer.

"I believe it's revolutionary," said Christian, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and a staunch advocate of the death penalty. "I think it's the best thing we've come up with since the start of executions by the government."

Christian said prison officials in several other states expressed an interest in his proposal, but he declined to name them.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where a similar measure passed a committee earlier this year with bipartisan support.

Under the bill, lethal injection would remain the state's first method of execution, but nitrogen gas would be used if it were declared unconstitutional or if the drugs became unavailable. Under current law, electrocution is the second alternative method, followed by firing squad.

Christian said there would be no need to construct a gas chamber and that the nitrogen could be administered inside a tent or through a secure mask worn by the inmate. He said the problem death penalty states are having securing lethal drugs would be alleviated with the purchase of a nitrogen generator, which would give prison officials an everlasting supply of the ingredient necessary to carry out executions.

Unlike traditional gas chambers that used drugs like cyanide that caused a buildup of carbon dioxide in the blood, Christian said breathing nitrogen would be painless because it leads to hypoxia, a gradual lack of oxygen in the blood.




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