Discussion: Oklahoma Will Now Use 5 Times More Sedative In Executions

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Isn’t living in Oklahoma punishment enough?

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Five times the dosage of midazolam? Are they making this up as they go? Do they know how five times midazolam will interact with the drug cocktail they give these inmates?

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Apparently they don’t give a shit.

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If nothing else it might reduce the time that person convulses and foams at the mouth down to say, nine minutes.

In the Oklahoma mindset that is an improvement!

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If I had to live in OK, I’d ask for 10x as much.

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“Your forced death: Now with five times more sleepy!”

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In other words, “we’re going to make it harder for him to complain about the pain or show signs of suffering and we’re going to close this up and make it less transparent so you can’t see it and complain about it. The last thing we want here is proper oversight and public awareness of the issue.”

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How positively Christian of them.

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Stubborn bastards, aren’t they!

“We’ll get this right, if we have to torture every prisoner on death row!”

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It’s Oklahoma - Idiocracy’s capitol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJIjoE27F-Q

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To be fair, nobody wants to be caught dead living there. So-o-o.