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Oklahoma to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates
By sky.com
Published: 03/15/2018

The US state of Oklahoma is to stop using lethal injections to execute prisoners, and instead plans to become the first to use nitrogen gas in the death chamber.

The state has had a history of botched executions and a full review was ordered after the 2015 execution of Richard Glossip was called off at the last moment when prison officials discovered they had the wrong drug to kill him.

Pharmaceutical companies have restricted the supply of their drugs because they believe they should be used to treat the sick, rather than kill convicts.

It led to the Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections admitting defeat, in an increasingly desperate search.

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