Nebraska bill would add asphyxiation by nitrogen gas as form of execution for death row inmates
— A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill to add asphyxiation by nitrogen to the state’s method of carrying out the death penalty, even as Alabama officials await a judge’s ruling on a request to block its plans to become the nation’s first state to carry out an execution by nitrogen gas. The bill introduced Thursday would add the nitrogen method, in which a mask that fits tightly over the nose and mouth would deliver pure nitrogen to a death row inmate, who would die of hypoxia — or a lack of oxygen to tissue and cells. I introduced this as a way to do the death penalty humanely.” If passed, the measure would make Nebraska the fourth state to switch to death by nitrogen gas asphyxiation. Progressive Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt offered a tongue-in-cheek amendment to the bill Friday that would give state prison officials the power to determine whether death row inmates are executed by lethal injection or a firing squad “composed of all members of the Legislature.” An annual report on capital punishment released late last year by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center said more Americans now believe the death penalty is being administered unfairly.
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