Louisiana has the death penalty for specified crimes, but a death sentence has not been carried out in this state since 2010. Louisiana was suing lethal injections, but there was a reticence on the part of the pharma folks in selling those drugs for ending life.
Last week, Alabama executed a prisoner by using nitrogen, a gas that accounts for 78% of our atmosphere. Nitrogen is fairly common. You are breathing it right now. Nitrogen is non-toxic and available everywhere.
Fox News is reporting that Governor Landry is exploring options to begin executions again. Good for him. Louisiana currently has 60 people on death row, and carrying out those sentences is a sure-fire way to reduce the prison population.
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Doesn't it seem odd that USP quality drugs must be used to execute people? USP designation is to ensure that the drug is safe and is the chemical specified and at the proper concentration. Why does the compound used in executions have to be "safe"? Isn't that an oxymoron?
Potassium Chloride is commonly used for fertilizer and is available in 50 pound bags at the local grain elevator.
That will be interesting...
Explore all you want, but any means of execution that doesn’t extinguish life in a minute or less seems inhumane.
It’s not like it would be hard to wire some 20,000 volt 50 amp lines to a guillotine. World’s biggest knife switch.
Drew458
Just wondering how much juice is needed to vaporize a body in a couple seconds.
OTOH I still think a .32 to the back of the head while walking the prisoner towards the execution station is the better way. Never sees it coming, dead in an instant. Pop, flop, done.
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