Oklahoma puts executions on hold after botched attempts
After years of controversy over lethal injection failures, US state now plans to execute inmates with nitrogen gas. Oklahoma, a US state with one of the busiest death chambers in the country over the past three decades, will have at least a two-year delay in lethal injections after officials declined to consider new execution procedures. After a botched execution in 2014 and drug mix-ups during the last two scheduled lethal injections in 2015, Pruitt said he wouldn’t request any execution dates for five months after the new protocols are approved and he’s confident the death penalty can be carried out without any problems. Botched US lethal injection raises concerns “I want to assure the victims’ families who continue to await justice that this review process will continue to be both deliberate and empirical,” Pruitt said in a statement. “It’s second in line behind lethal injection, and I think lethal injection is on its way out the door.” Still, death penalty opponents voiced concern that Oklahoma appears to be moving in the opposite direction of other states, where executions are being reconsidered altogether.
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