“Republicans in Oklahoma are advocating for the state to become the country’s first to execute death row inmates with nitrogen in a gas chamber. Executions currently are on hold in Oklahoma, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on a case involving the controversial sedative midazolam.
Legislative hearings on a House and Senate bill regarding the issue are scheduled for this week. If a court find the state’s lethal injection procedures unconstitutional, the new measures would make death through the use of nitrogen an alternative plan for execution in Oklahoma. By using nitrogen gas, the inmate would die from hypoxia, or the depletion of oxygen to the bloodstream.
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Republican state Rep. Mike Christian, who conducted a hearing last summer on hypoxia, did not immediately respond to msnbc’s request for comment. But he told The Associated Press that using nitrogen would be “a lot more practical” than requiring medical doctors for executions or using poisonous drugs like cyanide.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/oklahoma-republicans-push-gas-chamber-execution-alternative
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People are OVER thinking this. It’s actually pretty simple. How about instead of wasting lots of money on new chemicals or chambers, etc just take some of the impounded cocaine or heroin, inject them with a massive dose of it, they get a massive rush and then lights out. Simple yet cost effective.