Oklahoma Will Be First State To Experiment With Nitrogen Gas In Executions
Oklahoma will execute prisoners using an experimental method never before attempted anywhere in the world: nitrogen hypoxia. Mike Hunter, the state’s attorney general, and Joe M. Allbaugh, the director of the department of corrections, announced Oklahoma will asphyxiate prisoners by locking them in a chamber that will fill with a
Upcoming Execution Of Keith Leroy Tharpe Illustrates Legacy Of Lynching In US
Court filings from juror interviews reveal that one juror voted for Tharpe’s death because he was black.
Faced With Exonerated Man, Clinton Invokes Terrorism To Defend Death Penalty
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was asked by Ricky Jackson, a black man wrongfully convicted of murder who spent 39 years in prison, how she could support the death penalty, despite serious problems with it. Struggling to maintain his composure, he mentioned he was imprisoned on death row and came
