2/ The country is in the midst of a severe shortage of lethal injection drugs. Oklahoma's corrections director says he called "all around the world, to the back streets of the Indian subcontinent, to procure drugs."https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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3/ And so, after watching a BBC doc called 'How to Kill a Human Being' in 2014, three non-scientists put together a proposal to execute people in the state of Oklahoma with nitrogen. They presented their proposal after prepping for three hours one night.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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4/ After reading the report, Oklahoma lawmakers held hearings on nitrogen gas, during which they watched YouTube videos of teenagers inhaling helium, laughing, and passing out.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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5/ One of the items considered in passing legislation: pricing. A financial analysis claimed that “costs would be minimal,” including the “one-time purchase of a gas mask.”https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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6/ The two-page bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses in 2015. The few holdouts were concerned that people might experience brief euphoria before losing consciousness and dying.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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7/ Supporters of this method of execution have argued that it is more humane because nitrogen itself is not poisonous. Nitrogen does crowd out oxygen, however, leading to hypoxia.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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8/ One of the bill’s sponsors described death by nitrogen as such: “You just sit there and a few minutes later, you’re dead.”https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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9/ However, there is no medical research about nitrogen execution. Nothing is known about what might happen if someone resists. Or if the gas should be released gradually or all at once.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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10/ One anesthesiologist told The Marshall Project that this method is “nonsense, empirically.”https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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11/ This isn't the first time Oklahoma has been the nation's laboratory for capital punishment. In 1977, a state legislator came up with the idea of lethal injection. Read more in
@elibhager’s story. /endhttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/15/why-oklahoma-plans-to-execute-people-with-nitrogen?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitterf …Show this thread
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These states are barbaric.
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The death penalty is the state's ultimate expression of barbarism.
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This kind of thinking "Out of the Box" is something that would bring a smile to Gina Haspel, Mike Pompeo, José Rodriguez, Dick Cheney and
@Liz_Cheney !
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The corrections director sounds like a sociopath with a position of power. No one should have the power of sanctioned murder. It goes beyond a question of justice. The question of morality is far more critical.
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This sounds like an experiment the Nazi's would have done!
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Dear lord, can we please just stop executing people altogether?
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I can't say whether someone deserves to die or not, but I can say no government deserves the right to do the killing. Corrections officers are disgusting creatures more vile than the entire system itself.
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This is horrifying.
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