Why Oklahoma Plans to Execute People With Nitrogen
The state knows shockingly little about how this would work.
Oklahoma has always been the nation’s laboratory for capital punishment.
It was a state legislator named Bill Wiseman who in 1977 came up with the idea of lethal injection by asking the state medical examiner for a more humane, scientific way to put human beings to death.
It looks like Oklahoma might be experimenting again. On Wednesday, the state’s Attorney General and director of corrections announced that a severe nationwide shortage of
