if smnl is thrashing around it might be hard to keep that mask on their face. it could be a long-time struggle. we ll see. it s law now in oklahoma. if their lethal injection protocol is struck down next week, this is what they re going for instead, somehow. and maybe there are lethal injection protocols might not work now anyway because they can t get the drugs. in which case, oklahoma law now says this nitrogen thing is what they ll do instead. firing squads hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, now this is the new one. if they can sort out how to keep the prisoner from ripping off the gas mask, it will probably work out fine. it might work. we ll see. who is going to be first to try it?
one from oklahoma. oklahoma made itself famous in the past year for a badly screwed up execution in which the prisoner they were trying to kill regained consciousness in the middle of the execution. he personally ended up trying to help the execution team get into his veins. it went on for so long that oklahoma called off the execution in the middle of it and considered trying to revive the guy. they pulled the curtain so the witnesses wouldn t see it. ultimately after 3/4 of an hour the man finally died of a heart attack. that screwed up case in oklahoma has lead tolet lethal injection being put on trial next week at the united states supreme court. even without that case lethal injection has been on hard time because states can t get the drugs they want to use for the injections. the drug companies won t sell to prisons anymore. states were having compounding pharmacies make the drugs by hand. but now they won t do that either. last night we reported in