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March 15, 2018

Oklahoma Poised to Asphyxiate Death Row Prisoners with Nitrogen Gas
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Back in the United States, Oklahoma's attorney general said Wednesday
the state will seek to put prisoners to death using asphyxiation by
nitrogen gas. The proposal comes as Oklahoma has struggled to procure
lethal injection drugs following a string of botched executions. In a
statement, Dale Baich, an attorney for Oklahoma's death row prisoners,
said, "This method has never been used before and is experimental. … How
can we trust Oklahoma to get this right when the state's recent history
reveals a culture of carelessness and mistakes in executions?"


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