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It was only the third time since 1977 that execution by firing squad had been practised in the US.

Mike Christian, the Oklahoma representative who proposed the bill, told the Associated Press that execution by nitrogen hypoxia would be "a lot more practical", painless, and would not require the presence of a medical doctor.

It means that I don't think that execution by the state should be one of those consequences.

In the same AP story, Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment group, speculates that if the bill becomes a law it will be challenged in court on the grounds that execution by firing squad is cruel and unusual.

In October , 1994 a federal district-court judge in San Francisco ruled that executions by cyanide gas violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

An officer of the Kunming Intermediate People's Court, reached by telephone on Monday, said that executions by injection were still carried out in a field there, although the city was building an execution chamber.

Other deaths occur behind those "closed doors" of justice – in some of the 32 states that permit execution by lethal injection.

In other words, a more traditional, short, all-out war differs from the Russian approach in Ukraine the way that an execution by lethal injection differs from a crucifixion: Both are intended to kill the prisoner, but one is intended to make a very public demonstration of a long and agonizing death in order to send a message to others.

The dispute arose against the backdrop of two recent judicial decisions requiring that executions be supervised by medical personnel.

Supporters of capital punishment who say that executions are justified by the heinous nature of some crimes often cite the case of Jeffrey L. Dahmer, the serial killer who murdered and dismembered at least 17 boys and men, and ate flesh from at least one of his victims.

"You will hear that before her execution, by that wall in that schoolyard, that Iofemi Hightower sustained terrible, vicious wounds to her head, to her torso and to her extremities, with a machete," he continued, "and that these wounds were inflicted while she was alive".